Form Footer Displaying Twice

[rfear]

Does anyone elses form display the footer twice, like this :-

http://photo.ringo.com/262/262000018O183603375.jpg

The form detail section contains a tab control. For some reason if I open the form from say a main menu, it double displays the form footer.

It seems to do the same thing initially if I open the form directly but then it corrects itself.

Very puzzling, and more importantly very annoying.

 

[llkhoutx]

A form footer will not display twice. Something else is going on.

Is there a subform control on the form with the same navigation controls?

 

[rfear]

No subforms that I am aware of, and I wrote the form from scratch.

It seems to be connected with the tab control somehow - but knowing access it will be something else.

Oddly if I change the page order of the tab control the problem goes away, provided the first tab is not the one shown in the jpeg. Unfortunately this is the page I want as the first page.

 

[llkhoutx]

Can you post your database? I'll look at it.

 

[rfear]

Thanks, I'll see what I can do ( I've never posted a database before ).

In the meantime, I got into work this morning and took my database from home ( saved in Access 2002 ) loaded it onto my PC ( running Access 2000 ) and the problem has gone away.

I've made no changes to the controls on the form, only shuffled the pages of the tab around, returning them to their original order.

So not only is the problem annoying, it's intermittent. It's done this before and I have every reason to believe the problem will reoccur.

 

[rfear]

With any luck this is an attached example of the problem.

I made some control and vba changes to one of the tab pages ( not the first one ) and true to form the problem came back. I then slimmed down the database for posting and the problem remained.

Curiously when reloading the database from my USB stick, making the same changes to the tab, the problem did not reoccur ?

I think this must be a bug or something but can't find any notes about it on the net.

( I've just tried the zip file and if you open the database directly off this thread then for starters you will get an error saying one of the fields is not updateable, the 'footer display' problem also fails to materialise. To recreate the problem I had to extract the database and run it off my hard drive ).