Specifications

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CHAPTER 10
Highlighting Information in
Reports and Forms
About this chapter
This chapter describes how you modify the way information displays in
reports and forms based on the conditions you specify. The conditions are
usually related to data values, which are not available until runtime.
Contents
Highlighting information
Every control in a report has a set of properties that determines what the
control looks like and where it is located. For example, the values in a
column of data display in a particular font and color, in a particular
location, with or without a border, and so on.
Everything in this chapter applies to both reports and forms
Most of the discussions in this chapter focus on reports and the Report
painter. The techniques described also apply to forms and the Form
painter.
Modifying properties when designing
You define the appearance and behavior of controls in reports in the
Report painter. As you do that, you are specifying the controls’ properties.
For example, when you place a border around a column, you are setting
that column’s Border property.
Topic Page
Highlighting information 315
Modifying properties conditionally at runtime 319
Supplying property values 325
Specifying colors 343