Form.DatasheetForeColor Property

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Access Developer Reference

You can use the DatasheetForeColor property in Visual Basic to specify or determine the color of all text in a table, query, or form in Datasheet view within an Access database. Read/write Long.

Syntax

expression.DatasheetForeColor

expression   A variable that represents a Form object.

Remarks

Setting the DatasheetForeColor property for a table or query won't affect this property setting for a form that uses the table or query as its source of data.

The following table contains the properties that don't exist in the DAO Properties collection of until you set them by using the Formatting (Datasheet) toolbar or you can add them in an Access database by using the CreateProperty method and append it to the DAO Properties collection.

DatasheetBackColor

DatasheetFontUnderline

*

DatasheetCellsEffect

DatasheetFontWeight

*

DatasheetFontHeight

*

DatasheetForeColor

*

DatasheetFontItalic

*

DatasheetGridlinesBehavior

DatasheetFontName

*

DatasheetGridlinesColor
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When you add or set any property listed with an asterisk, Microsoft Access automatically adds it to the Properties collection.

Example

The following example uses the SetTableProperty procedure to set a table's font color to dark blue and its background color to light gray. If a "Property not found" error occurs when the property is set, the CreateProperty method is used to add the property to the object's Properties collection.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Dim dbs As Object, objProducts As Object
Const lngForeColor As Long = 8388608        ' Dark blue.
Const lngBackColor As Long = 12632256        ' Light gray.
Const DB_Long As Long = 4
Set dbs = CurrentDb
Set objProducts = dbs!Products
SetTableProperty objProducts, "DatasheetBackColor", DB_Long, lngBackColor
SetTableProperty objProducts, "DatasheetForeColor", DB_Long, lngForeColor

Sub SetTableProperty(objTableObj As Object, strPropertyName As String, _
intPropertyType As Integer, varPropertyValue As Variant)
Const conErrPropertyNotFound = 3270
Dim prpProperty As Variant
On Error Resume Next                ' Don't trap errors.
objTableObj.Properties(strPropertyName) = varPropertyValue
If Err <> 0 Then                    ' Error occurred when value set.
If Err <> conErrPropertyNotFound Then
' Error is unknown.
MsgBox "Couldn't set property '" & strPropertyName _
& "' on table '" & tdfTableObj.Name & "'", vbExclamation, Err.Description
Err.Clear
Else
' Error is "Property not found", so add it to collection.
Set prpProperty = objTableObj.CreateProperty(strPropertyName, _
intPropertyType, varPropertyValue)
objTableObj.Properties.Append prpProperty
Err.Clear
End If
End If
objTableObj.Properties.Refresh
End Sub

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