Inserting Shapes

[icbiny]

I've been away from access for a few years and am now back, surprisingly rusty, grappling with office365. My problem is...

I cannot insert a shape into a form. I have tried placing a rectangle, but only shape fill and shape outline controls are highlighted. So is there a shape button somewhere that I am not seeing? or am I missing something else?

 

[isladogs]

You could add a button to create the shape as that gives you far more options

• Quick styles
• Change shape
• Shape outline
• Shape fill
• Shape effects

These are all on the Format tab under control formatting

 

[icbiny]

i can see those buttons but most of them are greyed out. The only shape I can see is a rectangle so I presume this is my starting point, but then i am lost. I could be wrong, but i'm sure last time I used access there was a choice of shapes to insert

 

[isladogs]

You need to create then select a button in form design view in order to enable those items on the Format ribbon.

AFAIAA there has never been any additional items for adding shapes

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I don't have Ofc365 (and don't want it), but for "ordinary" Access, the only way to include shapes used to be as characters such as from font Wingdings. Those shapes would NOT behave like shapes from, say, PowerPoint, i.e. no adding text inside the shapes or rotating them. It's a matter of the screen-rendering engine and apparently Access doesn't use the same engine as Excel, PowerPoint, or Word.