Hi I am new in access and I have a lot of questions. I have a form where i put the information of one record that I need, and in the same form i have a subform (same table than the first form) where i have the same information but with all the records of a specific date, i control hours in the most of the fields and what i want to do in all records is that if for example: hour2 > hour1 backcolor the hour2 textbox, until know I can do this but the problem is that if i have 20 records and i put a date in the fist record will put the same color for all the records although the hour1 is > than hour2.

Also i want to know if that color can be reflected in a report?
Could you please help me with this?

I really appreciate all the help you all can give me.

Regards

I am not so sure about the subform, but I would open it by itself in design view, and then use Format > Conditional Formatting to see if that works.

You can use conditional formatting in the report as well. In the report, you can also go to the Detail section's On Format event and add code like:

Dim iHour1 As Integer
Dim iHour2 As Integer

iHour1 = Me.Hour1
iHour2 = Me.Hour2

If iHour2 > iHour1 Then
   Me.Hour2.BackColor = vbRed
End If

for example...

Look up conditional formatting in Help.

HTH

mmcdonal

Hi, Thanks for your help,

I did try to do what you wrote about the report but at the moment that i run it, show a compile error:
Method or data member not found (and highlight .backcolor =)
Do you know what i am doing wrong???

Also I think that i could use a For cicle to get the color in all records but I do not know if something like "FOR i=1 to end of file" could work.

Thanks again for your help.

Dulce :)

.ForeColor will set the font color. I am looking for the back color... hang on...

mmcdonal

Okay, I used this code and it worked, but I had to set the Back Style to Normal using the text box's Properties dialog box:

Me.Text9.BackColor = vbRed

mmcdonal

Same thing, when i write me.h2. (shows value)it does not have the options as in other ocations to write or choose backcolor. Do you think that I need a especific Reference to be abble to do this???

Thanks

to access a subform...

[subformBOXname].Form![textBoxName].BackColor = vbRed


note: [subformBOXname] is the name of THE BOX or CONTAINER where the subform is located, not the subform itself

its the name you typed when you added the subform to your form

to find it, open the proporties window

click on the subform ONCE
if you click it once the whole box will be selected and you will see RESIZING abilities

if you click it twice, a dot 5px X 5px in the top left corner of the subform will turn black

you dont want that, you want the other one

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