Vertical Scroll Bar

[RosemaryJB]

I have a text field on a sub-form in which I want a vertical scroll bar. Although I have set the Scroll Bars property to 'Vertical', it is not displayed & the users have to use the Up/Down Arrow keys to see hidden text.
Has anyone any idea why this might be happening? I don't have the same on any other text field.

 

[ted.martin]

Maybe you need to change the Data Type in the underlying table to Memo rather than Text.

 

[RosemaryJB]

Correction

Sorry, it is a memo field not text.

 

[ted.martin]

This is something I do all they time and it works fine. Try increasing the properties height of the text box to the equivalent of (say) 1.5 lines of text and then try it. If the box is too small in height, the vertical scroll bar doesn't seem to work properly.

 

[missinglinq]

My guess would be that your subform is in Datasheet View, in which case the scrollbar won't show. In Datasheet view you pretty much get a table/query type, no frills display and can't really change that. Most of the formatting properties in the Properties Box are useless in DS view. You can change things in the Properties Box, they just won't show up in Datasheet View! If your subform is, in fact, in Datasheet View, change it to Continuous View, run the form and click into the field in question. If the data is big enough to require scrolling, I expect you'll now see the scrollbar. If all this is true, the answer would be to keep the subform as a continuous form and format it to look like a datasheet form, if that's you desire.

Linq

 

[RosemaryJB]

Thank-you both for your help BUT
Ted: the box is quite big already, displaying about 10 lines of text by default. The users write a detailed account of a contact in this field. It could go for 20, 30 lines or more.
Missingling: the form is a Single Form. It can't be Continuous because it has a sub-form of it's own.

 

[ted.martin]

Here is the properties of my subform text box on a single form.

 

[missinglinq]

I have a text field on a sub-form in which I want a vertical scroll bar.

Your main form may be in Single Form View, they usually are, but you state that the textbox in question is on the subform. Is this correct? If so I expect as I said before that the subform is in Datasheet View, and all the things I said above hold true.

 

[RosemaryJB]

Ted: thanks for properties but, apart from the dimensions, the format for my problem box is identical to yours.
Missingling: the subform IS Single Form because it has its own subform which is in Continuous view.