Background Text (Not Default)

[Douglas Post]

In other applications (For example Quickbooks Pro) individual fields contain the name of the field in a light gray text. This makes it possible to not have a caption while permiting the user to know what that field represents.



I understand if you place a default value the field will accomplish this, but the problem is that the default value will be entered which is not what I want. Is there an easy way of doing it besides doing some VBA to deactivate a caption underneath a transparent field once that field is updated?

[Robeen]

I think you might have to resort to the sort of trickery you already mentioned:

doing some VBA to deactivate a caption underneath a transparent field once that field is updated

to achieve this.