Highlight field background in continuous form

Question

I have an Access continuous form. I would like to change the forecolor of a specific record\'s field.

I have the field to highlight from the FieldModified field. So for

Answer 1

You can't use a String variable like this, fldName is an identifier holding a String value.. not an identifier - in Me.ControlName, both Me and ControlName are identifiers.

But not all hope is lost! You can use a String to pull a Control object from a form!

All form controls should exist in the form's Controls collection, keyed by name:

Me.Controls(fldName).ForeColor = vbRed