Grey Band Across Report Header

[Guest]

I am transferring a report/database from a difficult-to-manage Excel file to
what will be a snap in Access, since the report formatter does all the work!
The report compares our firm's construction estimates (where we operate as a
consultant to the architect) to actual bid results.

The report header summarizes the report, for example:

Name/Description Cost Delta Notes
==================== ========== ===== ===============
AVERAGE - ALL PROJECTS $10,442,000 -3.6% 162 TOTAL PROJECTS

I would like to highlight these four pieces of data with a grey band. I
placed a textbox and set its BackColor property, and then placed the data
controls on top of it, and experimented with the BackStyle property, but the
band obscures the data.

Can anyone tell me how to implement this properly?

Thank you.
Sprinks

 

[Duane Hookom]

You can set the background color of sections. If that doesn't work, make
sure your text box is "sent to the back".