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MS Access 2007: Caption for Form

This MSAccess tutorial explains the Caption property for a form in Access 2007 (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).

Caption Property

The Caption property is the value that displays in the title bar of your form in Access 2007. Let's look at how to set the caption for a form.

In this example, we've set the Caption property to "Add/Edit Suppliers". This means that "Add/Edit Suppliers" is the value that will be displayed in the title bar of the form.

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Now when we view the Form as an end-user would, it would look like this:

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As you can see there is a title bar at the top of the form and it displays the value that we set in the Caption property.