Access.Screen.ActiveForm.md

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Screen.ActiveForm property (Access)	vbaac10.chm12490	vbaac10.chm12490	Access.Screen.ActiveForm	5cf41661-656e-e62f-530e-0d2fa5466146	03/23/2019	medium

Screen.ActiveForm property (Access)

Use the ActiveForm property together with the Screen object to identify or refer to the form that has the focus. Read-only Form object.

Syntax

expression.ActiveForm

expression A variable that represents a Screen object.

Remarks

This property setting contains a reference to the Form object that has the focus at run time.

Use the ActiveForm property to refer to an active form together with one of its properties or methods. The following example displays the Name property setting of the active form.

Dim frmCurrentForm As Form 
Set frmCurrentForm = Screen.ActiveForm 
MsgBox "Current form is " & frmCurrentForm.Name

If a subform has the focus, ActiveForm refers to the main form. If no form or subform has the focus when you use the ActiveForm property, an error occurs.

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