How can I remove (or hide) these?

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I've created a form with the Form Wizard. This Form has 7 fields in it, one above the other. I've adjusted the properties of this form so nothing can be deleted/added/edited in any of the fields. So I open the form and use the record navigation buttons on the bottom of the screen to view each record. That's it, that's all it's supposed to do.

The oddity is that the first field has a couple arrows on the end of it (one pointing up, the other pointing down). When clicked, these arrows do nothing. That's fine with me because I don't want them to do anything. If I click on another field, the arrows vanish from the first field and appear in the one I clicked on. However they still do nothing when clicked (again, that's fine).

My question is how do I get rid of them? I've turned on/off various things in the forms property sheet with no effect. Right now they just act like a "click me magnet", which is causing peeps to call me and say the form is broken (when it isn't). Can I remove these arrows so they don't appear on my form? Or hide them?


Thanks for your time and help :)

ADDED: I found this...

If I click on a field while the form is in design view, then click on the property sheet, then the data tab, there is an entry called "enabled". The "hint" for this yes/no-only setting is "Enable control in form view?". The default setting is yes. If I change it to no, the little arrows vanish, which is great! BUT the entire field gets grayed-out. Can I disable control in form view without graying out the entire field?
 
The up down arrows sound like a combo box to me. Are you sure you created text fields on the form and not combo boxes?
 
1. The little arrows mean that you have a text box that is sized so that it can have multiple rows in it. You can shorten the size of the text box down and also go into the properties of the text box and set the scrollbars property to NO.

2. You can disable and lock a control which will then not gray it out.

Locked = Yes
Enabled = No
 
DOH! *face-palm*

I don't know how, but I set scrollbars to none before and it had no effect (that or I had yet ANOTHER senior moment... cursed old brain...). This time however it worked. Thanks SOS! :)
 
You might have accidentally set the FORM's scrollbars property when you were trying to do the text box (they both have that property :D )
 

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