status bar when the control acquires the focus. Enter Key Behaviour : This property is meant to determine whether the use of Enter key adds a new line in the current control or results in moving the cursor to next control. Its setting is useful for Text control bound to Memo field. Allow AutoCorrect : This property, when set to Yes , enables the auto correction feature to correct automatically common spelling errors and types.
It is useful while using Text control for Memo field. Vertical : This property is meant to determine whether the text in a control appears horizontally or vertically. The default setting is No to mean the horizontal. When set to Yes, the text within the control is rotated at degrees.
Default : This property applies to command button and specifies whether the control is a default control on the form or not. Tab Stop : This property indicates whether the Tab key can be used to enter a control or not. It is desirable to set this property to No for those controls whose values are rarely changed. Tab Index : This property is used to set the tab order for the control.
This property helps in setting the tab order manually as opposed to automatic setting at Form level. Short cut Menu : This control is capable of attaching a specific menu to a control and a bar/window gets displayed when the user right-clicks at the control. Control Tip Text : This property is meant to enter text that acts as a tool tip for the control. The tool tip appears automatically when the mouse pointer is placed over the control and left there for a moment.
Help Context ID : This property indicates the Help topic attached to a particular control. . . Common Controls in MS Access Access provides for a number of controls and more can be added using the add-in-manager in Tools of menu bar.
There are three types of controls: Bound, unbound and calculated. Bound controls are used to display and modify data stored in a data table of