prompt placement

[Sharon]

- User selects menu item on the switchboard to open a form
- The form prompts for the customers last name

How do I place the[Enter Customers Name] prompt to pop up
below the selected menu item on the switchboard.

 

[John Vinson]

- User selects menu item on the switchboard to open a form
- The form prompts for the customers last name

How do I place the[Enter Customers Name] prompt to pop up
below the selected menu item on the switchboard.

You can't, as far as I know.

What you *can* do is use a Form control to solicit the criteria: use a
criterion of

=Forms!frmCrit!txtLastname

and on your switchboard, open frmCrit. If you have a command button on
frmCrit to open your Report or Form you'll get the same effect.