Database Reference
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Let's use the Property Sheet pane to display the properties of a different control and
then change its properties.
14
At the right end of the box at the top of the
Property Sheet
pane, click the arrow,
and then in the object list, click
Label3
to select the
FirstName
label.
15
Repeat step 12 to change the font size of the
FirstName
label to
8
points.
These different ways of selecting a control and changing its properties provide some
flexibility and convenience, but using this technique to make changes to several con-
trols in a form is tedious. Let's use a faster method.
16
In the upper-left corner of the dotted frame surrounding all the controls on the form,
click the
Select All
button (the four headed arrow) to surround all the controls with
thick orange borders to indicate that they are selected.
17
In the
Property Sheet
pane, notice that the selection type is
Multiple selection
,
and the box below is blank. Only the settings that are the same for all the selected
controls are displayed. Because the changes you made in the previous steps are not
shared by all the selected controls, the
Font Size
and
Font Weight
settings are now
blank.
18
Repeat steps 12 and 13 to set the
Font Size
and
Font Weight
properties of the
selected controls to
8
and
Bold
.
You have applied character formatting to all the label and text box controls in the form.
