re colors (1 Viewer)

[NickNeville]

Good morning all
i wonder if anyone out there has had this problem with access.
I have created a d/base with colors and formatting on text boxes and background colors etc but when I transferred this to another laptop the colors did not transfer. Well some did like the rectangle surround to a text box and the pics I used also transferred but nothing else and all I have is a greyish background with black text.
I have tried all the usual Windows display things but no luck, has anyone got an answer please ?

best rgds
Nick

 

[DCrake]

Alot will be depend of what the target pc's can support and have as default settings.

David

 

[NickNeville]

thanks but as far as i can determine they are the same, I wondered if there wa sanything in particular that i should look for ?

Rgds
Nick

 

[Atomic Shrimp]

Could you post screenshots of before and after?

 

[NickNeville]

yes for sure
but the two shots are 250 kb each and too big for upload , so the message says.

Is there another way to do it on this site ?
thanks
Nick

 

[Atomic Shrimp]

Are they full screen (do they need to be?)

<alt>+Print Screen should take a screenshot of just the active window.

Paste it into MS Paint. Save as jpg (that alone should reduce the size a lot)

 

[NickNeville]

yes that fixed it
hope its not too small

rgds
Nick

 

[Atomic Shrimp]

That is interesting... What operating system and Access version is installed on the machines?

 

[NickNeville]

Hi there
Windows XP
and Office 2003

Strange eh ?

Nick

 

[Atomic Shrimp]

It is most peculiar - you can see there's different visual stuff going on not just in your form, but in the application toolbars - in fact, it's a little difficult to tell, but it seems like the Start menu and taskbar might also be different.

Do the toolbar menus look different when you just open Access on each machine (without loading your db)?

Are you sure one machine isn't, say, Office 2003 pro including Access, with the other one being something like Office 2003 standard, plus Access XP or some such?


What about the Windows theme and desktop appearance settings?