Passing a Form as an Object Variable to a Global Subroutine in Microsoft Access VBA

In this Microsoft Access tutorial, you will learn how to pass a form as an object variable to a global subroutine using VBA. I will show you how to create a global function to change the form's background color based on the "IsActive" field, minimizing code duplication across multiple forms.

Clara from Pearland, Texas (a Platinum Member) asks: I have a field called "IsActive" on several of my forms, which can relate to customers, orders, products, and various other types of data. Is it possible to create a global function to set the form's background color to gray if the current record is not active? I would prefer to use a global function to avoid duplicating the code across multiple forms.

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[Shadow.Dragon]

Thanks for the excellent video, Richard! I'm always looking at how to "generalize" code, so this video helps a lot!

[RungeCarl]

Brilliant video as usual. I, personally, like to use sub classing to set properties on multiple forms rather use global variables.