Form's Background

[GraeagleBill]

Below is a screenshot of a portion of a form originally created in Access 2003. The form wizard in that version of access gave the user a choice of backgrounds. In Access 2013, I only see solid colors. In A2013, how do I get to the choices that include what I've shown in the screenshot?

[June7]

I think now have to find your own image and load into the form's Picture property.

[GraeagleBill]

If one ventures into the OFFICE11 (A2003) folder tree, one will discover ..... BITMAPS > STYLES and the bmp & gif files from which form backgrounds are derived. The files themselves WILL NOT "stretch" appropriately to be used as the picture properties of a form's background, so apparently A2003 has some special rendering builtin to a form's properties to produce what I posted as a screenshot. I.e., the pixels stretch okay but to a useless coarse resolution.

If the situation bugs me enough, I'll create an empty form with the desired A2003 background and use as a form template in A2013. (User beware, copy/paste of forms in Access when populated with controls make the DB vulnerable to corruption.)

[CJ_London]

have you tried setting the picture tiling property to yes?

[GraeagleBill]

AH! That's all it needed. I copied the STYLES library over from A2003, selected the ACEXPDTN.gif as the background picture and set the tiling property to yes.

As usual Ajax, you're a winner!

Bill