Can you globally increase font size of all fields ?

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Rock

Hi,

In 2002 have a few tables and forms and wish to now increase the font
size from the default 8 to 12 in all fields.

Can I do this globally or do I have to do each filed one at a time?

Thanks

Rock
 
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Nikos Yannacopoulos

Rock,

To begin with, there's no point in doing so in tables, since users
shouldn't ever see the tables anyway, all the work should be done
through the forms (or reports, if you add any).

For the forms, open each in design view, press Ctr+A to select all
controls on the form, change the font size and save. If you want certain
controls exempt from the font size change, then after you have selected
them all, keep the shift key pressed and click on the control to be
exempt; all others will remain selected.This shouldn't take more than a
few seconds per form, so no more than a couple of minutes for a few forms.

HTH,
Nikos
 
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Douglas J Steele

You shouldn't be using the tables directly, so the font shouldn't really
matter there. If you really need to change them, you can go to Tools |
Options and change the font on the Datasheet tab.

For forms, though, the size of the font is saved with the form, so there's
no global setting. While you could write code that opened each form, looped
through each control on the form and changed the font, unless you've got a
lot of forms to worry about, it's probably easiest just to do it manually.
Open each form. Once you've selected all of the controls you want to change
(you can use the mouse to "balloon select" them, or you can click on each
control while holding down the shift key), you can change the font in the
Property sheet, and it will apply to all selected controls.
 
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