Recent content by Neil Morgan

What I've been struggling with is Microsoft's delight in hiding items that used to be in logical places. Lots of actions that were easy to find in earlier versions don't even appear in menus now.

This is going to be interesting. I'm on 2007. The person who is going to maintain, update and eventually develop the project further is on 365.

I meant no disrespect. With it ticked I simply don't get the option to change it on the form or button properties. If I remove the tick in database options it removes themes and allows the buttons to look like buttons. I still don't get the button properties option to make buttons raised or...

Thanks but I'm helping a complete novice set up this database and they're a complete novice so VBA is currently a step too far. I have fixed it though by unticking use themes in the database options

Thanks. That's fixed it but not quite how you said. I unticked use themes in the database options and I now have nicer buttons.

Thanks. I'll have a look at this tomorrow. The top buttons are the kind of thing I was looking for.

I found raised and sunken but the effect was marginal. I can't find themes settings though I do remember something whilst creating the database about 2003 or 2007 or something like that. I don't want to delve into VBA for this project as a complete novice will be maintaining it. They'll learn...

I like your thinking but NOoooooooooo

I can't find a "use theme" option on the form :(

It's about 20 years since I've done anything serious with MSAccess so obviously I've forgotten things but more importantly I'm now working on a much later version of software. I'm sure I used to create command buttons easily around 1999 that actually looked like buttons and not boxes by simply...