Microsoft Access assumes that an ActiveX control should not manage its border and font. The border properties are owned by Access report itself, and are not passed to the controls. This causes annoying results since if the ActiveX control has the border by default, there will be no way to remove the border.

To circumvent the problem, in Barcode ActiveX 3.2, the default border style is changed to none. To add a border, use the ones provided by Access. To access Font and CommentFont, select Custom in Access's property list and click on the little ... button on the right. A property sheet pops up allowing you to change those Font properties hided by Access, as illustrated below: