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Improve your MS Access application interface with clean icons using SyncFusion Metro Studio.

Greg Regan will be continuing his series on modern Access user forms with this month’s focus on…

INTERFACE DESIGN: ICON CREATION
Text-based button vs Image (Icon) based controls
Image-based is faster once users are familiar with icons
How we can achieve the best of both worlds using Custom ToolTips
As developers, not graphic designers, how can we get world-class icons? Answer…

Metro Studio (it’s FREE!)
Overview of Metro Studio

Categories
Search
Creating your own Icons
Adding icons to your Project
Colors
Chosing your colour pallet
Background: transparent or solid
Padding: no padding in my world
Rotation
Go high-res
Copy colours from previous icons in a Project (if this is not your first icon)
Text Icons in Metro Studio
Add your icons to Access Forms as Images
(why I don’t use in Command Buttons)

Access Express Australia meets on the third Friday of each month at 11.30 am Brisbane time.
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