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Recipe 13.7 Change the Default Settings for New DAPs

13.7.1 Problem

You don't like the
default colors for the background of the caption and footer section,
or for the alternate row in a tabular page. You also wish you
didn't have to change the ConnectionFile property
for every page you create to point to the same

.udl file.

13.7.2 Solution

Access's Tools
Options dialog now includes a Pages page where you can set
defaults for any new pages you create. Changing the defaults will
have no effect on existing pages.

To
see how the color options affect the look of your new pages, follow
these steps:

1. Create a new DAP. Add a table to the page and request a Tabular
   layout.

2. Switch to page view. Unless your defaults have already been changed,
   you'll see a caption with a steelblue background,
   and every other row will have a whitesmoke background.

3. Close the page.

4. Select Tools Options from the main Access menu. Click the Pages tab.
   You'll see the dialog shown in Figure 13-21.

Figure 13-21. The default Pages options

5. Change the alternate row color to thistle.

6. Edit the Caption Section Style text box to use plum instead of
   whitesmoke as the background color. The dialog will now look like
   Figure 13-22.

Figure 13-22. The Pages options after editing

7. Click the OK button to accept the changes and close the dialog.

8. Create a new page. Add a table to the page and request a Tabular
   layout.

9. Switch to page view. You'll now see a caption with a
   thistle background, and every other row will have a plum background.

13.7.3 Discussion

We used the
Options dialog to change the look of two sections. All the options
for pages are listed in Table 13-2. You can play
around with these until you find the look you want.