Solved Checkbox appearance in continous form

[mib1019]

Hope you can help. I can't figure this out and feel kinda silly.

What's the correct combination of settings for a checkbox (border style, border color etc.) to get it to appear on a continuous form as sunken or etched? I hate the way they look right now, big and flat with black borders.

Thanks in advance.
MIB1019

 

[CJ_London]

short answer is you can't. You would need to use a textbox that looks like a checkbox instead - see this link for a way to do it

use a textbox as a resizeable and colourful checkbox

For whatever reason, checkbox controls cannot be resized. This suggestion addresses that issue and also enables the use of colour. To create, put the following in the format property of a textbox and set the control source to a boolean value 1. set format property -...

www.access-programmers.co.uk

 

[mib1019]

Thanks for that great advice.
MIB1019