Switching from design view causes Access to freeze

[BeeJayEff]

Access 2013 on Windows 7 ..

I have a Main Switchboard form which is Pop-up and Modal. Everything on it is working as required, but if I am in Design View and try to switch directly to Form view, the form disappears and the Access screen freezes - the mouse moves, but no menus or objects can be selected. If I have the VBA window open, I can carry on working in it, saving the modules and closing that window as usual. But the only way to open a form or do anything else in the main screen is to kill Access by closing the Access window in the system tray (or using the Task Manager).

If I close the Switchboard when in Design view and then open it in Form view, everything's fine.

The only recent change I can think of is upgrading from a 32-bit implementation of Access to 64-bit.

Any ideas what's going on here ?

 

[Minty]

It could be a corrupt form or database, have you tried copying the database over into a new blank database since upgrading?

 

[BeeJayEff]

It could be a corrupt form or database, have you tried copying the database over into a new blank database since upgrading?

No, I haven't tried that (yet !); presumably - hopefully - it would only be the front-end which would be worth trying. Compact and Repair does not do the trick.

 

[Minty]

Yes only the front end, compact and repair will not help corruption at form levels I'm afraid.

 

[BeeJayEff]

That seems to have done the trick - I also took the opportunity to leave behind some objects which I think are no longer needed. I shall now have to see what I've broken !

Thanks.