Setting Control Properties
Microsoft Access gives you many properties for each control to allow you to customize the way your form works. These properties affect formatting, the presence or absence of scroll bars, the enabling or locking of records, the tab order, and more.
Formatting Properties
In the property sheet for each text box, combo box, and list box are three properties that you can set to determine how Access displays the data in the form. These properties are Format, Decimal Places, and Input Mask, as shown in Figure 12-21.
Figure 12-21. The list of format settings for the BirthDate control, which uses the Date/ Time data type.
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