How Do You Re-Create Multi-Shaded Form Headers/Footers

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CrazyAccessProgrammer

Create a new Access 2007 database using one of the pre-defined templates that
are available. I used the 'Issues' database.

I open the form, 'Contact Details' in design mode. I delete every object in
the form header so there are no objects there.

Now looking at the form header, it appears multi-shaded... a shade of blue
followed by a band of bluish-grey where some form buttons had been before I
deleted them out of the header.

The thing is, this bluish-grey band is not an object (I thought it would be
a rectangle object or something to create the bluish-grey band on top of the
blue background of the form header but it is not.

After mulling over the form header properties of the form I can't find
anything to account for the bluish-grey band in the form header. I'd like to
understand this so I could re-create this effect in my own forms without
having to copy this form into my database.
 
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CrazyAccessProgrammer

After doing some more research I've answered my own question and posting the
results here for anyone else who might wonder about this.

What is going on is that the form itself has an embedded picture in it
called 'GlassBanner2.Png'

This shows in the properties for the form, not the form header.

I searched a bit on the net to find the source file GlassBanner2.Png but
came up empty.

Without the source file, the only way to get this look into my own database
will be to copy one of these forms and paste it into my database.
 

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