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Command Buttons Upload Images Link
Amina Jones
46 minutes ago

Can you change the color of the arrows in the command button?
I know how to change the background colors but is there a way to change the arrow colors from blue. I watched the cmd button video but it did not answer my question.

Adam Schwanz
42 minutes ago

If you're talking about a command button. You can change anything you want about it, you can even insert a custom image to be the button. If you're talking about the navigation buttons on the bottom, no there's not much you can do there that I know of.

Adam Schwanz
37 minutes ago

If you're talking about the "preset" images that you make, I don't think you can change those either on the front, but you can always copy it into paint and overwrite the color there and then put it back into access as an image ;P.

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Amina Jones
37 minutes ago

The commands buttons for previous and next i want to change the color from blue

Amina Jones
36 minutes ago

The blue triangles inside the command button

Adam Schwanz
33 minutes ago

You can also go into the character map and find the symbol you want, like ►, then copy/paste that in as text and change the font colors that way.

Amina Jones
26 minutes ago

where's the character map

Adam Schwanz
21 minutes ago

It's a windows thing, if you press your windows key and type in character map it should come up. You can also google Character Map and see the online version.

Kevin Robertson
20 minutes ago

You can also get arrows if you change the font of your button to 'Wingdings 3".
Example screenshot below.

Kevin Robertson
20 minutes ago

Adam Schwanz
15 minutes ago

Oh true, I forgot about Wingdings haha.

Kevin Robertson
8 minutes ago

Can also use MS Word. Insert Symbol into Word Document the copy/paste into Access. Used to use this method for the Copywrite symbol before I learned about ASCII codes.

Amina Jones
6 minutes ago

ok thank you

Cascade Combo Box With Value List Upload Images Link
Carmen Vazquez
73 minutes ago

Hi - not sure if this is possible or not and please pardon my long windedness on explaining my issue - but I have a main form with a subform. The main form has two combo boxes:

WorkType combo box has a Value List ("","Show All","Line","Station") Read More...

Adam Schwanz
44 minutes ago

Hi - not sure if this is possible or not - The answer to this is almost always Yes, the real question is HOW.

Could you upload some pictures of what you're trying to do so I'm sure I understand? Snip & Sketch

I've done something very similar to this recently for someone and it was basically just setting the combo box row source in the oncurrent / afterupdate events. This may be the same solution.

What Lessons for ABCD Upload Images Link
Alexis Cao
16 hours ago

Hello,

the holidays will start, so i plan to purchase the developer lesson these days. so what lessons of developer i must learn if i can learn and use the ABCD seminer easily, i already have the beginner, exporter, advanced lesson. Read More...

Scott Axton
14 hours ago

Alexis -
All of them.  I'm not trying to be flippant or sarcastic - but you just have to start at the beginning.

Two reasons.  First, each course builds on the materials from the previous one.  It is like taking university level calculus math.  If you don't know basic algebra and trigonometry you will be lost.

Second, the ABCD is not a Teaching Course (per se).  It is more of a "demonstration" series.  If you don't have the background of the courses you could get lost pretty easily.  Richard indicates this right up front in the introduction video for ABCD.

Scott Axton
14 hours ago

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