user guidance message

[fishhead]

Is there a way to have a short message in a field (if that field is blank) to guide the user on how to update that field



for example I have [vendor ref] field that i would like the users to update but in a specific format (alfa-numeric)
is there a way to have this field show (alfa-numeric) in brackets and perhaps in a lighter font (similar to some date fields that show (dd/mm/yy) in the field before the user updates it?

thanks,
Steve

[moke123]

In the format field of the property sheet put

 @;"your text"

[CJ_London]

you can also add a limited range of colours

@;[red]"your text"

with regards fonts etc use conditional formatting where the condition is isnull(controlname)

[fishhead]

you can also add a limited range of colours

@;[red]"your text"

with regards fonts etc use conditional formatting where the condition is isnull(controlname)

works well, thanks guys!