Create an unbound scrolling text control on a data access page

Create an unbound scrolling text control on a data access page

  1. Open a data access page in Design view.

  2. Click the Scrolling Text tool Scroll Text control in the toolbox.

  3. In the data access page, click where you want the upper-left corner of the scrolling text control to be; Microsoft Access creates a default-sized control. To create a scrolling text control of a particular size, click in the data access page and then drag until the control is the size you want.

  4. Select the default text in the scrolling text control, and then type the message you want to appear.