Add or remove scroll bars

Add or remove scroll bars for a form or for a text box on a form

By default, a form has vertical and horizontal scroll bars that appear only when necessary. Also, by default, when you create a text box based on a Memo field in a Microsoft Access database, or when you create a text box based on a text or ntext column in an Access project, Access adds a vertical scroll bar to the text box. Otherwise, a scroll bar doesn't appear in a text box unless you change the value of the ScrollBars property. Follow this procedure only if you want to change the default behavior.

1. Open the form in Design view.
2. Do one of the following:
   • To open the property sheet for a text box, select the text box and then click Properties on the toolbar. 
   • To open the property sheet for a form, double-click the form selector.
3. Click the Format tab, and in the ScrollBars property box, do one of the following: 
   • To specify that a scroll bar for a text box never appears, click None.
   • To specify that a scroll bar for a form never appears, click Neither.
   • To specify that a vertical scroll bar for a text box always appears, click Vertical.
   • To specify that a vertical scroll bar for a form appears when necessary, click Vertical Only.
   • To specify that a horizontal scroll bar for a form appears when necessary, click Horizontal Only.
   • To specify that both vertical and horizontal scroll bars appear when necessary, click Both.

Add or remove scroll bars for a text box on a data access page

By default, scroll bars for a text box based on a Memo field appear only when necessary; if the text box is based on a field whose data type isn't Memo, the scroll bars do not appear at all. Follow this procedure only if you want to change the default behavior.

1. Open the data access page in Design view.
2. Click the text box, and then click Properties on the toolbar. 
3. Click the Format tab, and do one of the following:
   • To specify that scroll bars never appear in the text box, set the Overflow, OverflowX, and OverflowY properties to Hidden. 
   • To specify that scroll bars appear in the text box only when necessary, set the Overflow, OverflowX, and OverflowY properties to Auto. 
   • To add a vertical scroll bar to a text box, set the OverflowX property to Hidden and the OverflowY property to Scroll.
   • To add a horizontal scroll bar to a text box, set the OverflowX property to Scroll and the OverflowY property to Hidden.