Raised and Sunken Tab control

[Access_Novice]

I am trying to find out how to make a tab "raised" or "sunken" when selected, like special effects. Is this possible?

Also, for any given tab/page, is it possible to make the tab portion one color and the page portion another color?

[ItsMe]

not sure what 2013 has to offer. Maybe themes. But I don't like them for Tab Controls because they behave funny and seem to suck up resources. There should be a property available to enable themes when you select the entire tab control in design view. Use Themes

If I recall it won't use the fancy system button themes available from the controls area of the ribbon. not sure what 2013 has to offer.

[libraccess]

I tried playing around with this for some time but have settled on tab color options. the current tab (page) the same color as your page background the other tabs another color and a hover color something else has been my choice now and (opinion only) seems to look the most effective

[Access_Novice]

I tried playing around with this for some time but have settled on tab color options. the current tab (page) the same color as your page background the other tabs another color and a hover color something else has been my choice now and (opinion only) seems to look the most effective

I didn't think about the hover color. I will play around with that. Thank you.

[Missinglinq]

When wanting to do wonky things like this, to the 'tab' part of a Tabbed Controls, the usual approach is to

1. Set the Style Property of the Tabbed Control to None
2. Replace the tabs with Labels
3. Use the Labels' OnClick Events to navigate, programmatically through the Pages
4. Format the Labels as you need

Here are a couple of links to hacks for using colors with Tabbed Controls:

http://www.lebans.com/tabcolors.htm

http://www.fontstuff.com/access/acctut12.htm

Linq ;0)>