Section Property

Microsoft Access Visual Basic

You can identify these controls by the section of a form or report where the control appears. Read/write Integer.

expression.Section

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

Remarks

For controls, you can use the Section property to determine which section of a form or report a control is in.

ShowSection property as it applies to the Form and Report objects.

You can use the Section property to identify a section of a form or report and provide access to the properties of that section. Read-only Section object.

expression.Section(Index)

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

Index   Required Variant. The section number or name.

Remarks

The Section property corresponds to a particular section. You can use the following constants listed below. It is recommended that you use the constants to make your code easier to read.

Setting Constant Description
0 acDetail Form detail section or report detail section
1 acHeader Form or report header section
2 acFooter Form or report footer section
3 acPageHeader Form or report page header section
4 acPageFooter Form or report page footer section
5 acGroupLevel1Header Group-level 1 header section (reports only)
6 acGroupLevel1Footer Group-level 1 footer section (reports only)
7 acGroupLevel2Header Group-level 2 header section (reports only)
8 acGroupLevel2Footer Group-level 2 footer section (reports only)
If a report has additional group-level sections, the header/footer pairs are numbered consecutively beginning with 9.

For forms and reports, the Section property is an array of all existing sections in the form or report specified by the section number. For example, Section(0) refers to a form's detail section and Section(3) refers to a form's page header section.

You can also refer to a section by name. The following statements refer to the Detail0 section for the Customers form and are equivalent.

Forms!Customers.Section(acDetail).Visible
				
Forms!Customers.Section(0).Visible
				
Forms!Customers.Detail0.Visible
				

For forms and reports, you must combine the Section property with other properties that apply to form or report sections.

Example

ShowAs it applies to controls on a form or report.

The following example uses the Section property to determine which section contains the CustomerID control.

Dim intSectionNumber As Integer
intSectionNumber = Forms!Customers!CustomerID.Section
				

ShowAs it applies to the Form and Report objects.

The following example shows how to refer to the Visible property of the page header section of the Customers form.

Forms!Customers.Section(acPageHeader).Visible
				
Forms!Customers.Section(3).Visible