Border style of a control is set to transparent, its colour and width properties are ignored. Fore Colour : This property can be used for assigning a colour of choice to the text being formatted. Font Properties (Name, Size, Weight, Italics, Underline): These properties are meant to control the appearance of text within a control. These are capable of affecting font, its point size, thickness and also whether the text is italicised or underlined.
Text Align : The text-align property affects the manner in which data is aligned within the control. The available options are: General, Left, Centre, Right and Distribute. Margins ( Top, Left, Right and Bottom ) : These properties determine how far the text appears from top, left, right and bottom of a control. The margin properties are of particular importance while using Text box for memo field.
Line Spacing : It is used to determine the spacing between the lines of a text with multiple lines. This is useful when a text control is used for displaying and storing data pertaining to Memo fields. Display When : This property is capable of deciding whether to send the data of a control to a Printer or to a Screen. For example, the labels containing instructions can be displayed on the screen but not on the printer.
Scroll Bars : This property is capable of determining whether scroll bars appear when the data in the control does not fit within its size or not. The options are none or vertical. This property is normally set to vertical for text control to interact with data pertaining to Memo field. (b) Data Properties Control Source : This property specifies the field from a record source that is associated with particular control.
By default, it is the record source that underlies the Form being designed. Input Mask : The input mask property affects the format used for data entry into the control as opposed to its appearance, which is affected by Format and Decimal places property. The input mask of the field underlying the control is automatically inherited by the