I am an idiot in Access 2007

[sportsguy]

I lost the ability to view and change form control properties.
I don't know how or why this has occured.
For the anal retentive, when I click on the ribbon Properties, nothing happens.

Does anyone know what i need to do to get form controls' property box to show up?

thanks

idiot sportsguy

 

[vbaInet]

Have you tried restarting Access?

 

[sportsguy]

Many, many times

 

[vbaInet]

What about on a blank database? Brand new I mean

 

[sportsguy]

new database, same inability to look at control properties. . .

thanks for responding,
today is not going well. . .

sportsguy

 

[vbaInet]

I think it may be something to do with your copy of Access. Have you experienced any problems with other Office applications?

By the way, what were you doing just before it starting misbehaving?

 

[sportsguy]

editing forms and testing code.
everything worked fine until i fooled around with the references.

however, all the references are loaded. . .

 

[vbaInet]

And you obviously don't remember what you changed?

I think your best bet would be to reinstall Access.

You can post a stripped down copy of your db and I'll check it here.

 

[sportsguy]

I restarted the COMPUTER, and that fixed the issue. Not sure what was unloaded, but all is ok at the moment.

thanks

sportsguy

 

[vbaInet]

I bet now you wouldn't fiddle with the references anymore

Glad it's working.

 

[sportsguy]

ah, no. . . i fiddle with everything to learn.

Disconnected my Boss during a departmental video conference, had to get IT to reconnect. I asked IT why isn't the connect directions in the operations book, IT said the book is too big. . . so they just pushed buttons like i was pushing buttons, until it re-connected. . . . like IT can't write the actual directions down for someone else to read. . .

he could still see us, i think he could still hear us, though we couldn't see or hear him. .. now that was awkward. . .

 

[vbaInet]

Blaming it on IT now are we? lol. There are certain equipment that the IT team would prefer to deal with themselves and I reckon that's problem one of them, which was probably why they gave the excuse of "the book is too big".