How to make a description visible in a form text box and then disappear when you type in the box.

[mara9642]

How to make a description visible in a form text box and then disappear when you type in the box? I would like to be able to put descriptions of the different types of data that I want in various text boxes in a form, but have that information disappear when text is entered in order to keep the data entry interface from appearing cluttered.

Thank you!
Theresa

[June7]

Never mind.
See following posts.

[CJ_London]

use the format property for the control

use something like

for text - @;"Enter Name"

for numbers - ;;;[RED]"Enter Number"

see this link for more information

https://support.office.com/en-us/art...4-1fe286636668

you can also combine with conditional formatting for more on background colours

[davegri]

Mara-textDisplay-davegri-v02.zip

Here's a working DB with a form that shows how.
The text to be displayed is put in the control's format property.
As shown, if the field is to contain a date, the format must be reset in the form_current event to a value compatible with the date data type.

Enter a new record to see the action.

[mara9642]

Thank you so much! That was exactly what I needed.