Making a field pop-up on a form

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Luther

Hi,

I have a form on which I have ran out of real estate...The need is to put
yet another comment field (text format). Is there a way to make it so, for
example, once the user clicks a checkbox, the text field would pop-up for
them to write stuff in. At the end of that sequence, they would close the
text box and the field would commit to the table.

I hope to have explained this clearly. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
K

Keithr

Luther

Have you tried using the tab dialog control in MS Access to group fields
into subsets and display each subset by clicking on the appropriate tab?
That can save a lot of real estate on the form layout very easily and
economically - no fancy coding to maintain either!
 
L

Luther

Keith,

I have used it before, but that would not work in this case...I need the
field to be shown as described before or something similar.
 
J

John Vinson

Keith,

I have used it before, but that would not work in this case...I need the
field to be shown as described before or something similar.
Click to expand...

A Tab Control can indeed give exactly the appearance that you request.
There are a variety of styles; try setting its Style property to
Buttons.


John W. Vinson[MVP]
 
L

Luther

Hi,

The Tab Control property does not give a "Buttons" style; would you be
taking about the Option button?
 
L

Luther

I apologize....just found it.

John Vinson said:
A Tab Control can indeed give exactly the appearance that you request.
There are a variety of styles; try setting its Style property to
Buttons.


John W. Vinson[MVP]
Click to expand...
 
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Luther

What I'm trying to accomplish is this: Have the tab control only show it's
caption (buttons style is ok), but when clicked, open the text field for the
users to type in. Is this at all possible?

Any help would be appreciated.
 
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