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    virgilio is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Alternating color customization for continuous forms

    Hi, I would like to customize the colors that my continuous forms use for the alternating bands. I discovered that setting the 'On Paint' event for the 'Detail' section of my form in VBA is able to set the form background in alternating colors, but the cells seem to sit on top of the alternating stripes, unchanged.



    My VBA is:

    Code:
    Private Sub Detail_Paint()       
            Detail.BackColor = &HDDDDDD
            Detail.AlternateBackColor = &H8EAD00
    End Sub
    But the results are:

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    How can I customize the cell colors in alternating rows?

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    Try setting control BackStyle to transparent.

    But why not just set AlernateBackColor property in design instead of VBA?
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    virgilio is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Thanks June7, that's what I was looking for!

    I had tried this in 'Properties', but I tend to resort to VBA when that doesn't do what I want.

    I'm going to mark this as 'solved', but I don't understand why the control 'cells' stop responding to the colors that are set in Detail >> Back Color and Alternate Back Color when I change them off of 'Background 1'. Setting control backstyle to transparent fixes this, but it seems glitchy, especially because setting a different theme changes the color that 'Background 1' points to.

    Do you know how to change the theme settings in VBA?

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    I don't use Themes.
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