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Form.Section Property (Access)

You can use the Section property to identify a section of a form and provide access to the properties of that section. Read-only Section object.

Syntax

expression .Section(Index)

expression A variable that represents a Form object.

Parameters

Name

Required/Optional

Data Type

Description

Index

Required

Variant

The section number or name.

Remarks

The Section property corresponds to a particular section. You can use the following constants listed below. It is recommended that you use the constants to make your code easier to read.

Setting

Constant

Description

0

acDetail

Form detail section

1

acHeader

Form header section

2

acFooter

Form footer section

3

acPageHeader

Form page header section

4

acPageFooter

Form page footer section

For forms and reports, the Section property is an array of all existing sections in the form specified by the section number. For example, Section(0) refers to a form's detail section and Section(3) refers to a form's page header section.

You can also refer to a section by name. The following statements refer to the Detail0 section for the Customers form and are equivalent.

Forms!Customers.Section(acDetail).Visible

Forms!Customers.Section(0).Visible

Forms!Customers.Detail0.Visible

For forms and reports, you must combine the Section property with other properties that apply to form or report sections.

Example

The following example shows how to refer to the Visible property of the page header section of the Customers form.

Forms!Customers.Section(acPageHeader).Visible 
Forms!Customers.Section(3).Visible

See Also

Concepts

Form Object

Form Object Members