in design view

[mark kubicki]

....in design view, is there a way to display the (for example) text box's
"name" rather than its label, caption...

I've inherited a project where none of the controls were re-labeled; and
following tex123, and label 456 are driving me crazy (eventually i'll give
them standard lables, but for now...)

thanks in advance

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Mark

If I open a form in design view, select a control, and select Properties, I
see the "Name" property. If I haven't renamed the control, Access has
assigned it text123 or label 456 as a "name".

It sounds like you and I have a different definition of the "text box's
name".

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

 

[Roger Carlson]

You might want to download Rick Fisher's "Find and Replace" Add-in. It
should help alot. You can find it here:

http://www.rickworld.com/download.html


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[mark kubicki]

what i menat to say...

in the design view, the caption or label... is diplayed on the control...
not its name;
and i'm having frustration connecting which control is which...

i could, as you suggest, and as i currently do, go into each control's
properties and lookup its name...
however, occassionally code will refference a control (text123...) and i
have no idea which one it's refering to, so i make a guess, go to that
control, check its name property, and then, all to often, check another
control to determine if it's the correct one, aned then occassionally, yet
another...)


-mark