Form Opens in the Middle of the Page

[Robin Evans]

I have just created a new database for tracking our members and donors monetary gifts. Everything is working well expected that when every I open the Member and Donor Form to search for or input information the form opens in the middle of the page.

Granted, in the overall scheme of the databases functionality this is not big deal, just mildly annoying. But mildly or not it is annoying. When I created the form I made sure I was at the top of the form when I finished designing it and saved it.

Is there anyway I can force the form to open at the top of the page instead of in the middle? Thanks.

Robin Evans
Membership Coordinator
Tohono Chul Park

 

[David R]

Have you changed the Form-level Format Property Auto Center to No? After you do that I _believe_ the Form stays where you save it last.

Just an initial thought,
David R

[This message has been edited by David R (edited 02-12-2002).]

 

[Robin Evans]

David- At your suggestion I doubled-check the form-level format property Auto Center and is already set to NO. Thanks for the suggestion though.

 

[David R]

I would suggest moving your form to where you want it, saving the database, and closing it. Open the form again and see where it shows up. There does not seem to be a way to position an entire form similar to the Top and Left properties.
More's the pity.

The DoCmd.MoveSize method may prove useful, but seems excessive and may cause annoying blinking.

David R


[This message has been edited by David R (edited 02-12-2002).]

 

[Okie]

Robin,

It sounds to me like your saying that the form is opening in the correct position but inside the boundary of your form it's opeing in the middle of your form design. Is this correct? Do you have multiple pages in your form? If that's correct check your tab order and see if it's correct. It may be opening to a field on the second page and therefor causing the form to be "in the middle" as you say. If the tab order is correct see if you have any code making a certain field receive the focus and if it is, is that field in the middle of your form.

I've answered this way because it sounded to me like you were talking about when the form is setting within it's borders but the other two answers were for where the form opens positionally. I hope I've followed your question correctly.

HTH
Shane

 

[David R]

Nice catch Shane, rereading it you're probably correct. Oh well, I learned something anyway.

Ommmm...zen coding.
David R

 

[Robin Evans]

Shane- I guess I should have been a little clearer. The form is opening in the middle of the first page (in form view) vertically, so I need to scroll up to the top and over to the left just a little bit. The main body of the form is created using the tab control tool and consists of three tabs.

 

[Okie]

Robin,

When the form opens, which field has the focus?
Is it a field that is in the middle of your form?
Is your form designed to be bigger than the screen resolution that you have set on your computer?