Make a control appear raised, sunken, shadowed, chiseled, or etched

1. Open a form, report, or data access page in Design view.
2. Click the control that you want to change.
3. On the Form/Report Formatting or the Page Formatting toolbar, click the arrow next to the Special Effect button.
4. Click the effect you want to apply.

Note   In forms and reports, if you click Raised, Sunken, Etched, or Chiseled, Microsoft Access overrides any settings for the BorderColor, BorderWidth, and BorderStyle properties. If you click Etched, Access also sets the BackStyle property for text boxes and combo boxes to Transparent, and the BackColor property for list boxes to the same setting as the section's BackColor property.

Tips

• If you want to use the same special effect for another control, you can just click the Special Effect button (you don't have to click the arrow next to the button and pick the effect again from the list).
• In a form or report, you can adjust the thickness of a control's shadow by clicking the Line/Border Width button on the Form/Report Formatting toolbar.