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    Topflite66 is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Arrow Color on Buttons


    I added a customer record counter to one of my forms and I am not able to change the color of the arrows within the macro buttons for some reason. I have tried to changing all of the color options but for some reason they seemed to be locked as light blue. My goal it to have the arrows the same color, white, as the typing on the buttons below. Is this something that is hardcoded into Access? Thanks in advance.Click image for larger version. 

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    put an icon /bmp image on the button

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    Another possibility, remove the image from the buttons and set the captions to << < > >>
    The captions will follow the forecolor.

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    You'll have a bit more control if you set the Use Theme property to no, but AFAIK, the image package is what you get and it always seems to change from version to version. If you do use custom images as suggested, they will need to have transparent backgrounds or at least the background will have to match. If users can change the Access theme it will probably clash with whatever you design, then there's the problem of making sure images are available to all users, or you have to embed them in the controls. Embedding can add significantly to your file size. You might want to consider taking off the theme constraint and colouring everything else to suit the arrow colour.
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    Topflite66 is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Thanks for all the suggestions. Think I'll go with davegri's suggestion. That will give me the most versatility for my theme coloring. Thanks again.

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