Office 2016 Microsoft Access Report Themes Not Working

richlocus
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Office 2016 Microsoft Access Report Themes Not Working

Post by richlocus »

Hello:

Is there a known bug with Themes when creating a report in Microsoft Access 2016?
When I'm editing a report in Layout or Design, I perform the following actions to change a reports theme:

On the Menu bar I select:
* Report Layout Design
* Themes
*In This Database

And then I select a theme. Nothing happens to the report except it "blinks" when I select a theme.
I even tried other themes listed below.

I couldn't find any bug reports just doing a general search of the Internet.

Ideas?

Thanks,
Rich Locus

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HansV
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Re: Office 2016 Microsoft Access Report Themes Not Working

Post by HansV »

If your report uses standard fonts and colors, you won't see any change.

To see the effect, create some controls on the report and set their fill and/or border colors to a color from the Theme Colors section of the color palette.

Then switch to the Report Design tab of the ribbon, click on the Themes drop down, and hover the mouse pointer over different themes.
You should see the colors of the controls change in real time.

Here are the color sets from two different themes:

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Best wishes,
Hans