Form Format problem

[Willem!]

Hi everyone!

Got a small but mind-breaking question. I am rather new in Access so perhaps I overlook a small thing or whatsoever.
My problem:

I have a form built up off tabs. Under a tab there are serval sub-forms. Now, the problem is that when I open the file the tabs are hidden under the 'form header'. So I cannot see the tabs, I have to scroll upwards to see them. It's like the 'Detail' is a little shoven under the 'Form Header'.

Ofcourse I tried to alter the properties of my form, but somehow I cannot change them. I have my Access in the Exclusive mode, so I am terrible confused at the moment! Does anyone has an idea?

 

[KenHigg]

My suggestion is to loose the whole header/footer setup. They just clutter things up and are usually the result of trying to design too much functionality into one form...

 

[Willem!]

Yo man, thanks (although i do not exactly know how to realise that).

However, it doesn't seem right that the software does not follow my commands.. They should prevent that ! So If anyone can beat my computer, I would be glad to hear.

Willem

 

[Willem!]

I found another way out!

put a little (empty) button at the top, make it transparant, and change the tab-order so that the ghost-button is at #1

 

[tuz]

I had a similar problem, Willem, and only managed to "fix" it through trial and error. It seems to have been an issue with having a subform on the Detail part of the form. (Now my knowledge of Access is limited as I've only started playing around with it this week so I might not name things correctly but...) It seems to happen when you already have a Subform on a form and then try to resize the header. The detail part of the form doesn't recognise the height property of the header, and if you have the vertical scroll bar enabled you can see the rest of the Detail section.

The solution I've found (for anyone else who might run into this), is to:
1) Size you header to the height you want,
2) Cut the subform & paste it back onto your form (or tab control in this case).

This may / may not work with multiple subforms on multiple tabs, you could try cutting & pasting them all to an empty form, then cutting & pasting them back.