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Sep 22, 2006

Hello, how can I change the "default" textbox properites.

When ever I place a new textbox on the form it has certain properties which I must always change.

For example I want all my textboxes to be flat not sunken and to have a solid border style. Currently the default is sunken and transparent border so I must always change it.

I know how to do it via VBA... just want to do it immediately using default.

I am assuming it's somewhere in Windows Registry?

Thanks

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