Tab pages: How to change background color

[mcheng]

Hi, I've added 6 tabs onto a form. Although the form itself can be
formatted with different background colors, the tabs themselves cannot
(as far as I've been able to try). Perhaps there's a VBA code that
will allow me to change the tabbed page background colors? With 6
tabs, I want to make sure the user will unmistakably associate the
selected tab with the data being updated on each page.

Thanks,
Michael

 

[Peter Hibbs]

Have a look at http://www.fontstuff.com/access/acctut12.htm

HTH

Peter Hibbs.

 

[ruralguy via AccessMonster.com]

And another possibe solution you could try is:
http://www.lebans.com/tabcolors.htm

 

[mcheng]

The two responses are great. For future reference:

-Peter's solution uses an event procedure to give the appearance of
tabs by creating a form from scratch; very helpful prior to
incorporating tabbed pages within your form

-RuralGuy's solution uses VB to create a class for an existing tabbed
page within your form

Thanks so much for sharing!
Michael