Access 2003 Continuous Forms

Question

I have a continuous form that contains a drop down box whos control source is the id of a record in a support table. The bound column is this support element id. The row source of the drop down list is a query that gets 2 text fields based on the id in the bound column... the first text field is simply text that is displayed... the 2nd text field is a color. these are actual number color codes for access that the user can enter in by changing the color of a box and saving that particular color

for each of the records in the continuous form, they have one of these levels... Blank, Red Yellow or Green... I want the field that displays the color name to have its background color changed to the color that is in the 3rd column of the drop down...

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You're looking for Conditional Formatting. This article will explain how to use Conditional Formatting to do pretty much whatever you want with the background colors:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa139965(office.10).aspx