Special Properties That Refer to Objects

VBA offers the convenience of performing actions on the active control, the active form, and other specially recognized objects. The following is a list of special properties that refer to objects in the Access Object Model:

• The ActiveControl property refers to the control that has focus on a screen object, form, or report.

• The ActiveForm property refers to the form that has focus.

• The ActiveReport property refers to the report that has focus.

• The Form property refers to the form that a subform is contained in or to the form itself.

• Me refers to the form or report where code is currently executing.

• Module refers to the module of a form or report.

• The Parent property refers to the form, report, or control that contains a control.

• PreviousControl refers to the control that had focus immediately before the ActiveControl.

• RecordsetClone refers to a clone of the form's underlying recordset.

• The Report property refers to the report that a subform is contained in or to the report itself.

• The Section property refers to the section in a form or report where a particular control is located.