conditional formatting of textbox

Thanks in advance... I have a continuous style form with a field for
each record called "STATUS". I simply want to have the form load and
if the value of the textbox is "Inactive" I want the textbox
background to display yellow, else I want it to be just white. Here's
my code... but it is not working

Private Sub Form_Load()
If Me!STATUS = "Inactive" Then
Me!STATUS.BackColor = RGB(255, 255, 0)
Else
Me!STATUS.BackColor = RGB(255, 255, 255)
End If
End Sub


'Thanks!

On May 29, 1:48 pm, slinky <campbellbrian2...@yahoo.comwrote:http://www.mvps.org/access/forms/frm0047.htm

On 29 May 2007 10:48:33 -0700, slinky wrote:
Use Conditional formatting (Access 2000 or newer).
In Form Design view, right-click on the [Status] control and select
Conditional formatting.
Set the Condition1 drop-down to Field Value Is.
Select "equal to" in the next drop-down box
Write "Inactive"
in the next box.
Select the BackColor.
Save the changes.

Note: the above assumes the datatype of the [Status] control is Text.
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On May 29, 11:04 pm, fredg <fgutk...@example.invalidwrote:Hi Fred,

Any idea why this does not work for multi-valued combo box? i.e. if
above formating is used, it works only if that single value is
selected. If multiple values are selected with that value, it does not
work.

On 29 May 2007 22:48:09 -0700, Matuag wrote:
1) A combo Box cannot contain multiple values. Perhaps you meant to
say a List Box.

2) Well if you select "x" and "y" and "z" in a list box, then it's
value is xyz, not just x.

3) To work with a multi-select list box you'll need to use code to
cycle through the selections and do something with them. There is
sample code in VBA help to do this.

4) Why didn't you state, in your original post, that it was a
multi-select list box?




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