list box field printing black in forms and reports

[aimee]

I've set up both forms and reports containing field that have a drop down
list box. The box shows up black and the text is white, however when I print
preview or print the field shows up the same color as selected for the text,
I've tried to reverse the fill and text colors, this does not work. For
instance regardless of back ground color, if I select red text, a red bar
prints and the same happens with any color and these fields with their
selction need to print, not sure how to proceed from here.

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

This behavior only occurs if you are printing from forms instead of reports.
Generally, printing forms is a wasteful use of toner or ink. Create a report
from your form (right-click on the form and choose Save As Report, then make
adjustments in a copy of the source query to use as the recordsource of the
report, such as adding the tables from the combo's rowsource so that you can
use text boxes in the report.