Does anyone know a simple way of making certain controls stationary?

I have a form that has a header, footer and detail section. The detail section consists of many controls that force the width of the form to be a maximum 22" and forces scrolling to view all of the controls. Thing is, I have controls in the header and footer section of the form, (like name of student and exit button) that I don't want to move when the user scrolls, sort of like freezing these controls the way you can freeze a column when viewing a table.
I know I could make a subform, but that would be a lot of work on my part w/ changing code and fields.

If too confusing let me know.

Hi Rosebud

Have you thought of using a tab control - a series of tabbed pages that can allow more controls to be displayed without needing to scroll across or down? You can have tabs with subforms as well - so they can make quite complicated forms look neat tidy and accessible.

HTH

Rich Gorvin

Thanks for responding Rich,

Well, I've never used tab controls and they sound like they could be a good feature, but I do need the ability to scroll for the detail section. It's a matter of comparing information on a subform to information on a form and taking the scroll aspect out is not an option. Any other ideas?

Thanks.

Couldn't you use a sub form and add scroll bar to sub?

Thanks a whole lot Rich.

You know what? I didn't end up using a subform, but a form itself. What i did was created a new form with the controls I wanted to freeze on it, with a low height and large width, and set the border to none with no record selectors, nav. buttons, etc, and saved it to the same position I wanted it to appear on the main form.

When the command button is clicked (from previous form) to open main form, it also opens this pop-up form (and vice versa with close). So basically the user doesn't have any idea this "heading" to the form is not part of the main form and when I scroll the main form, the "heading" doesn't move! Yeah!

Now, only prob is when deactivating this main form, also deactivating the pop-up form, but that shouldn't be a big deal.

Thank you Rich!