Access 2007: Use the New AutoFormat Themes
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Microsoft Office Access 2007 has introduced 25 new AutoFormat themes to be used on forms and reports. AutoFormat themes can be used to give your applications and/or reports a more professional look and feel with little effort on your part. To utilize AutoFormat themes…
1. Open a Form or Report.
2. While in the Form designer (or Report designer), select the Format tab.
3. Click AutoFormat and select a theme.
4. AutoPreview will allow to see how your form (or report) will look with the applied theme.
5. After you have applied the theme you desire, save the form (or report).
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Pam said on June 5, 2009
What could keep the AutoFormat from being applied to my forms. It is doing the headers but the body is not changing. It is staying the orginal Dark Blue.
AccessUser said on January 9, 2010
Too late to help this user, but for others stumbeling over it:
to be applied to the whole form, make sure to mark the whole form before applying via the little square in the upper left corner, between the horizontal and vertical rulers.
If you have just a single item like a control selected, the autoform will just apply to that particular control.
Omar_9945 said on September 11, 2010
hello, i have the entire form selected (the little black square in is selected in form design view) but it still doesnt change no matter how many times i change it. what to do now?
Cyn said on December 2, 2010
When converting to Access 2007, I want to convert all forms to the same format. Is there a one-step method, or do all forms have to be separately converted?
meez said on February 24, 2011
If you’re having trouble with formatting your forms with AutoFormat, make sure your image storage settings are correct
Access Options -> Current Database tab -> under Picture Property Storage Format, select ‘Preserve source image format’
Erwin Castellanos said on April 29, 2011
I have a mdb database (Access 2003), now I’m using A2007 and when I try to use Autoformat in my forms an error message appears “Application-definde or object-defined error”
I already applied Office 2007 SP2, but whit no luck
Can anybody help me??
Thanks in advance.