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13. Working with Other Controls

IN THIS CHAPTER

Working with Text Boxes

Using Controls in Option Groups

Working with Subforms

Working with the Tag Property

Working with Text Boxes

Text boxes are the second most common control on most forms (the most common, labels, are pretty uninteresting from the point of view of automation). You saw in Chapter 11’s case study how you can use the events of text boxes to prevent users from entering invalid data, but there’s much more that you can do with text boxes and VBA. This section of the chapter reviews some of the key properties of text box controls, and then shows you some useful techniques.

Key Properties of Text Boxes

You probably already know most of the properties of text boxes—they’re visible ...