Continuous Form Colour

[Brad]

Hi,

I have read several postings about changing the colour of text for
certain textboxes on a continuous forms. I however am unable to get
this to work for what I am trying to do. When I put in my code for
the control source I get the #Error showing up in the text boxes.
What I have in the control source for the text box is:
=iif(HotDeadLin e=-1,nextActionDat e,"") HotDeadLine is from a table
and nextActionDate is also from the same table. If I change
nextActionDate to something in quotes or change it HotDeadLine it
displays a value and not the #Error. So I assume you can't reference
2 different field names from tables... Does anyone know what I can do
to get this to work. What I need is any nextActionDates that have a
HotDeadLine value of -1 to be displayed in red otherwise the
nextActionDate will just be displayed in the usual black. If it
helps I am using Access from the Office XP Suite.

Thanks in advance for your hepl!

Brad

[Wayne Morgan]

Are the two fields from the table that the form is using as its Record
Source? If so, try enclosing them in brackets. I know that for most things
you don't need to if there aren't spaces in the name, but in a control's
Control Source you need to any way.

=IIf([HotDeadLine] = -1, [nextActionDate], "")

For the color change, in form design view, right click the control and
choose Conditional Formatting. In the combo box choose Expression. Set the
Expression to

[HotDeadLine] = -1

and set the color to Red.

--
Wayne Morgan
MS Access MVP
"Brad" <cr****@hotmail .com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have read several postings about changing the colour of text for
certain textboxes on a continuous forms. I however am unable to get
this to work for what I am trying to do. When I put in my code for
the control source I get the #Error showing up in the text boxes.
What I have in the control source for the text box is:
=iif(HotDeadLin e=-1,nextActionDat e,"") HotDeadLine is from a table
and nextActionDate is also from the same table. If I change
nextActionDate to something in quotes or change it HotDeadLine it
displays a value and not the #Error. So I assume you can't reference
2 different field names from tables... Does anyone know what I can do
to get this to work. What I need is any nextActionDates that have a
HotDeadLine value of -1 to be displayed in red otherwise the
nextActionDate will just be displayed in the usual black. If it
helps I am using Access from the Office XP Suite.

Thanks in advance for your hepl!

Brad