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Use the Controls Collection

Use the Controls Collection

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If you need to reference every control on a form, using the Controlscollection will be faster than referencing every control directly. Forexample, if you have four command buttons on a form and you want to setthe Enabled property to False for all of them, you have two options.
Option 1:

 cmdAdd.Enabled = False cmdEdit.Enabled = False cmdDelete.Enabled = False cmdNext.Enabled = False

Option 2 will execute approximately 10 to 15 percent faster thanOption 1:

 For iLoop = 0 To 3 Controls(iLoop).Enabled = False Next
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