Add or remove scroll bars for a form or for a text box on a form
By default, a form has vertical and horizontal scroll bars that appear only when necessary. Also, by default, when you create a text box based on a Memo field in a Microsoft Access database, or when you create a text box based on a text or ntext column in an Access project, Access adds a vertical scroll bar to the text box. Otherwise, a scroll bar doesn't appear in a text box unless you change the value of the ScrollBars property. Follow the steps below to change the default settings in Access:
1. Open the form in Design view.
2. Open the property sheet for a text box or for a form
3. Click the Format tab
4. In the ScrollBars property box, do one of the following:
- To specify that a scroll bar for a text box never appears, click None
- To specify that a scroll bar for a form never appears, click Neither
- To specify that a vertical scroll bar for a text box always appears, click Vertical
- To specify that a vertical scroll bar for a form appears when necessary, click Vertical Only
- To specify that a horizontal scroll bar for a form appears when necessary, click Horizontal Only
- To specify that both vertical and horizontal scroll bars appear when necessary, click Both
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