Transparent backgrounds don't work for tab controls in A2003/2007 unless you
turn off Themed controls.
In A2003, go to:
Tools | Options | Form/Reports.
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"L Kates" <LKates[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:89E98AED-2B4A-463D-A30A-803B46CBFEE6[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] >I have Access 2003 running under 2003 sbs on one of my workstations, and XP
> running on the other. On the 2003 system, the version is:(11.5614.5606),
> on
> the XP system, the version is:(11.8166.8221) SP3. I have designed a
> system
> with Access that uses tab controls. I set the background property on the
> tab
> control to "transparent" so that the color of the underlying form will
> show
> through. On my 2003 machine, that works; on the XP machine, using the
> exact
> same code, the tab controls remain white regardless of the color of the
> host
> form. Obviously, i expected the control to act the same on both systems.
> Is
> there any known reason for this?
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> Larry Kates
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