Recommended way to mark mandatory fields?

[Boris]

Is there a recommendation how to mark mandatory fields in a form? On the
Internet authors often add a * to labels of mandatory fields. As I don't
want users of my database to guess which fields are mandatory I would like
to make these fields somehow visible, too. Any recommendations?

TIA,
Boris

 

[JulieD]

Hi Boris

i make the labels of the mandatory ones bold & the others not ... however in
the last db i release although i had said that this is how it worked at
least once on every page of the 150 page user's guide people still didn't
"get it"

Cheers
JulieD

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

In one application, I not only added an asterisk to the label of each
mandatory field, but I also changed the backgroup colour of the control
itself.

 

[Rick Brandt]

Just to "pile on"

I have an app where the required field labels are in red and they change to
normal (in this case blue) as you fill them in. When the user sees no more
red, they know they've entered all the required fields.

 

[Aurora]

I have done the following to make a field mandatory.
In the table design module, I made the field mandatory.
In the Form, I make the field and text box an odd color
(like bold red)that is not used in the form. Then I
sometimes put a small note (Italized and red also) at the
beginning of the form such as (Red fields are mandatory
and must be competed to save the form.) If you do not
fill in all of the mandatory fields the program will not
let you save it. I hope this helps.

Aurora

 

[grep]

I've seen the required fields' labels turn red if they weren't filled
in. That would be easy to do in VBA.

grep