Access 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference

E.15. The Control Object

Within a form, you can have a variety of different controls. You use the controls to display data from tables, queries, and other data sources such as ADO recordsets.

E.15.1. Control Properties

The Control object has a variety of properties found in the following table.

Property	Data Type	Description
Application	Application object	Returns the currently active Application object
Column	Variant	Used to refer to a specific column in a combo box or list box
Controls	Controls collection	Used to refer to the collection of all the controls on the form
Form	Form object	Refers to the current form object
Hyperlink	Hyperlink object	Used to access the properties and methods of a hyperlink object associated with a control
ItemData	Variant	Returns the data in the bound column for the specified row in a combo box or list box
ItemsSelected	ItemsSelected collection	Returns a reference to the ItemsSelected collection
Object	ActiveX object	Returns a reference to the ActiveX object associated with a linked or embedded OLE object in a control
ObjectVerbs	String	Used to determine the list of verbs an OLE object supports
OldValue	Variant	Used to determine the unedited value of a bound control
Pages	Integer	Returns the number of pages in a control that supports tabbed pages
Parent	Various	For controls, usually a form object
Properties	Properties collection	Returns a reference to the entire collection of properties for the object
Report	Report object	Refers to a report or the report associated with a subreport control ...