Multiple Text Box After Update Change Font

[xntric]

Hi,
I have a form with multiple text boxes.
In the text boxes i have grey font with default values to show an example for users.

Is there a way to code the form to automatically change a textbox to black font once the user updates the textboxes without coding each textbox_afterupdate event.

Conditional formatting doesn't help me.

Any help would be much appreciated

[missinglinq]

I think you're going to have to do this for each control, one way or the other. I have to say it sounds like a situation that's just begging for problems! If you have default values in each control "as examples" those values are still in the controls, which means you really can't easily validate any data. Instead of the usual validation strategy checking for null text boxes, you'd have to check each box to see if the data was different from the text that you'd entered as "examples." You also don't have the ability to make any field required, since they all have data in them! I would suggest that you devise another method of giving your users examples of correct input.

[xntric]

I think you're going to have to do this for each control, one way or the other. I have to say it sounds like a situation that's just begging for problems! If you have default values in each control "as examples" those values are still in the controls, which means you really can't easily validate any data. Instead of the usual validation strategy checking for null text boxes, you'd have to check each box to see if the data was different from the text that you'd entered as "examples." You also don't have the ability to make any field required, since they all have data in them! I would suggest that you devise another method of giving your users examples of correct input.

I figured as much.
Thanks for the prompt reply.