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From: Dee on 18 May 2010 17:54
I am trying to get a field to turn red if the condition is "High"
I tried using the conditional formatting and it does not work. I also tried
using the below vba code and this does not work either. I tried it in the
after update procedure and the on current procedure with no luck. Could this
be an Access bug?

Private Sub Critical_AfterUpdate()
If Me.Critical = "High" Then
Me.Critical.ForeColor = vbRed
End If
End Sub
From: Al Campagna on 18 May 2010 19:12
Dee,
Is Critical a manually entered text control? Or a Combo... or a List?
Is it bound to a text field? Details please...
Your code, although faulty (so far), should have (at least) turned
Critical to red
after an update with "High" See below for further tweaking of that code...
Also, what version of Access are you using... and if 2000 or greater...
have
you tried Conditional Formatting?
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You'll also need to indicate what color you want Critical, if it's not
"High."
Otherwise, once you've turned Critical red, and go to another record... that
value will be red too... regardless whether it's "High" or not.

And... you'll also need to have that same code in the OnCurrent event of
the form, so that when you arrive at a record with Critical = "High", the
text
is made red. And if not, the text would be made black.

Private Sub Critical_AfterUpdate()
If Me.Critical = "High" Then
Me.Critical.ForeColor = vbRed
Else
Me.Critical.ForeColor = vbBlack
End If
> End Sub
--
hth
Al Campagna
Microsoft Access MVP 2007-2009
http://home.comcast.net/~cccsolutions/index.html

"Find a job that you love... and you'll never work a day in your life."


"Dee" <Dee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:82EC939E-2F44-4F2F-B1FA-0564955A6E1D(a)microsoft.com...
>I am trying to get a field to turn red if the condition is "High"
> I tried using the conditional formatting and it does not work. I also
> tried
> using the below vba code and this does not work either. I tried it in the
> after update procedure and the on current procedure with no luck. Could
> this
> be an Access bug?
>
> Private Sub Critical_AfterUpdate()
> If Me.Critical = "High" Then
> Me.Critical.ForeColor = vbRed
> End If
> End Sub


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