Databases Reference
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Setting the default Sheet Object Style
The captions, as we've styled them now, still have a very basic look. As we noted at
the start of this chapter, having a clean, basic style is not necessarily a bad thing, and
in many cases is preferred. For now, however, we'll make our presentation a little bit
flashier by setting another default
Sheet Object Style
, using the following steps:
1.
Open the
Document Properties
dialog by selecting
Settings
|
Document
Properties
or by pressing
Ctrl
+
Alt
+
D
.
2.
Make sure the
General
tab is active.
3.
Set the
Styling Mode
option to
Advanced
.
4.
Set the
Sheet Object Style
option to
Glass
.
5.
Click on
OK
to apply the settings.
The object captions now have a glass-like appearance and rounded corners. The
Advanced
styling mode allows us to make additional changes to an object's style,
such as setting rounded corners.
There are several pre-defined object styles available through the
Sheet Object Style
menu. The following screenshot shows how each available combination of
Styling
Mode
and
Sheet Object Style
looks:
Hiding captions
Because of the data in them, some of the listboxes, such as
Year
,
Quarter
, and
Month
,
do not really need captions. We can hide these captions by right-clicking on the
listbox, selecting
Properties…
, and unmarking the
Show Caption
checkbox on the
Caption
tab.
