Form background designs

[Guest]

Hi,

I want to update the really bland background choices I have when creating a
form (blends, blueprint, expidition etc).

I found a folder - Program files/MS Office/Office/Bitmaps/Styles - that
seems to have the images in, yet when I saved some backgrounds (.gif format)
and then tried to create a new form the new backgrounds won't show.

Does anyone know why? Or have I found the wrong folder to put them in?

Thank you in advance, I really don't want to use the installed backgrounds
as they really are naff!

Lee
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[Guest]

It' much simpler to just use
Insert -> Picture -> Format -> Send to back.

 

[Guest]

Hi Wayne,

Thank you for your reply.

I have tried what you suggested but it's not quite working out like that!

I am able to create the form, then go into the 'design mode' so I can then
'insert/picture' but there's nothing to check to 'send to back'.

If I double click the image I get a small 5 tabbed box appear - the options
given are: format/data/event/other and all. There's nothing there to send
the image behind, there is something in the 'format' tab that says about
transparency, but nothing seems to have any effect on the image ie.
stretching it, tiling it and so on.

What am I missing here?!!!!!

Any further help will be appreciated

Lee
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[Guest]

Select the picture (left click)
On the format option tab (top of the screen) select Send to back.

Oh and you my want to to open the picture's property box (right click) and
in the format column slect Size Mode and select stretch (so you can size your
piture to the form size).

 

[Rick Brandt]

Select the picture (left click)
On the format option tab (top of the screen) select Send to back.

Oh and you my want to to open the picture's property box (right click) and
in the format column slect Size Mode and select stretch (so you can size your
piture to the form size).

Wouldn't using the picture property of the form make "send to back" unnecessary?

 

[Guest]

Hi Rick

Yes it would, you are correct. But I didn't suggest that Lee used the
picture property of the form. This method has much less control than doing
it "manually". eg. If you select strech that's what you get, over the whole
form - no boarders, no control, etc


Note Lee - if you read this - that Rick is correct and you can just go to
the Form's Property box and in the format colomn select the build option
(...) on the picture Row browse to your picture and then select the picture
sie mode to select stretch.

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys, I'll give it a go

Lee
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Hi Rick

Yes it would, you are correct. But I didn't suggest that Lee used the
picture property of the form. This method has much less control than doing
it "manually". eg. If you select strech that's what you get, over the whole
form - no boarders, no control, etc


Note Lee - if you read this - that Rick is correct and you can just go to
the Form's Property box and in the format colomn select the build option
(...) on the picture Row browse to your picture and then select the picture
sie mode to select stretch.

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

I want to update the really bland background choices I have when creating a
form (blends, blueprint, expidition etc).

Be advised that

1) background images can be visually disconcerting to some people. I,
for one, have difficulty picking out shortcuts on a desktop that is
not bland.

2) embedding images on forms or reports can bloat the FE MDB by up to
1 mb per form.

3) In reference to #1 Access itself is a business tool. Bland is
fine. <smile>

Tony
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