Form Design - text box

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Can I not just have a box with text it it that isn't linked to anything,
But the test displays on the form, if so, how?

thanks
 
Nadine said:
Can I not just have a box with text it it that isn't linked to anything,
But the test displays on the form, if so, how?
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If the text is going to be static, not changeable by the user, and not
derived from anything else, then you might as well use a label instead of a
text box. However, you certainly can have an unbound text box that the user
can update, just by adding the text box to the form. Or you can have a
calculated text box whose value is set by an expression you provide for its
Control Source property. For example, to have a text box that always
displays "This is my text", you would specify this as its Control Source:

="This is my text"

If you want to have a control where your code will display messages to
users, I would use a label control rather than a text box, and my code would
set that control's Caption property.
 
Label (duh) been too long since created a form, guess I need to go back and
refresh.

thanks.
 
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