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    Etoimos is offline Competent Performer
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    How to remove the drop shadow from Switchboard titles?


    So I have made my first Switchboard and want to edit the design so that it fits the theme of my other forms. One of the first things I tried to do was remove the drop shadow (label2) from the switchboard title. If I just select that control and delete it, Access gets all mad saying that label2 is missing and something about macros. If I delete both labels 1 and 2, I get the same thing. I can just turn the Visible property to off for label2, but that does not seem like the best way to do it.

    Can someone shed some light on this for me?

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    Etoimos is offline Competent Performer
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    I'm still interested in learning how to work with the above, but I think it might just be easier for me to design my own "switchboard" style form and add buttons to it that do the same things as a true switchboard would do. Are there any pit falls to this that I'm not foreseeing right now?

    If I do this, is there a way to remove the current default switchboard? Access says you can't delete it once you make it.

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    Is this a switchboard generated by a wizard? If so I don't use the wizards so I'm not sure what you're referring to.

    Is the object with the drop shadow a command button? You can change a command buttons shadow in the formatting tab, somewhere around special effects.

    It would be perfectly fine to make your own switchboard form from scratch. You might also look into the Navigation Control instead.

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    You might also look into the Navigation Control instead.
    I wouldn't do that. If there are 3 abominations that Microsoft should have avoided in Access, it's the Switchboard, the Navigation control and multi-valued fields. It's really easy to make a roll-your-own switchboard.

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    Thanks everyone, I think I'm just going to make my own. With that decision, how do I correctly remove the one Access made when I opened the Switchboard Manager?

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    Close the switchboard form. In the navigation pane, right click on switchboard form and delete it. Then delete the switchboard items table.

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    And by the way to have your own switchboard form automatically open up upon opening the database:

    Files | Options | Current Database | Display Form...

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    Etoimos is offline Competent Performer
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    Quote Originally Posted by davegri View Post
    Close the switchboard form. In the navigation pane, right click on switchboard form and delete it. Then delete the switchboard items table.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bullschmidt View Post
    And by the way to have your own switchboard form automatically open up upon opening the database:

    Files | Options | Current Database | Display Form...
    Thanks guys.

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