Recently,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, there was a thread on UtterAccess that I thought might be helpful to more people. The poster radish asks: I'd like to change the color of a control then be able to change it back to its original color. If I wanted to use the theme's highlight color,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, e.g.,
Windows 7 Activation, how would I do that in code? It's listed in the property sheet as "Highlight". Sure, I could grab the values of that color but is it possible to reference "Highlight",
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, "Access Theme 5" or "Dark Blue 3" in vba code? Access 2007 has a series of generic colors that change color based on the Office theme color. Internally,
Windows 7 Key, we store negative numbers and map those to predefined colors in the theme color table. You can get the underlying value using the immediate window. Something like: ?forms("colors").Controls("Text16").backcolor In case you are lazy like me—here is a table of the color values you need to use in VBA to have it theme with the Office theme color. Color VBA Color Value Alternate Row -2147483610 Background Form -2147483613 Background Light Header -2147483612 Borders/Gridlines -2147483609 Text Black -2147483617 Text description -2147483614 Text Light -2147483616 Text Dark -2147483615 Highlight -2147483608 Here is a link where you can get similar color values for system colors.