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Conditional Formatting in Access 2003

I recently installed Access 2003 and immediately noticed problems with
applications that work fine in 2000 and XP. I use conditional
formatting on continuous forms for a number of reasons. When these
forms are opened in 2003, Access seems to go into a continuous loop.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone know of a
solution short of not using conditional formatting in continuous
forms?

Here is an example:

http://www.bugnoaccess.kit.net/test1.zip

How to solve this?
Nov 12 '05 #1
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Yes: have seen this bug.
No: no fix AFAIK.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"brAccess" <ca******@bol.c om.br> wrote in message
news:e1******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...
I recently installed Access 2003 and immediately noticed problems with
applications that work fine in 2000 and XP. I use conditional
formatting on continuous forms for a number of reasons. When these
forms are opened in 2003, Access seems to go into a continuous loop.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone know of a
solution short of not using conditional formatting in continuous
forms?

Here is an example:

http://www.bugnoaccess.kit.net/test1.zip

How to solve this?

Nov 12 '05 #2
TC
Does that happen always, or unpredictably?

TC
"Allen Browne" <Al*********@Se eSig.Invalid> wrote in message
news:3f******** **************@ freenews.iinet. net.au...
Yes: have seen this bug.
No: no fix AFAIK.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"brAccess" <ca******@bol.c om.br> wrote in message
news:e1******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...
I recently installed Access 2003 and immediately noticed problems with
applications that work fine in 2000 and XP. I use conditional
formatting on continuous forms for a number of reasons. When these
forms are opened in 2003, Access seems to go into a continuous loop.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone know of a
solution short of not using conditional formatting in continuous
forms?

Here is an example:

http://www.bugnoaccess.kit.net/test1.zip

How to solve this?


Nov 12 '05 #3
There's a set of conditions that it applies to.

From memory, it it has to be a calculated field that is being conditionally
formatted, and the formatting seems to trigger a recalc, which triggers a
reformat, which triggers a recalc, which ...

Search groups.google.c om for posts by Stephen Lebans on this issue. I think
he suggested that you can avoid the issue by assigning the conditional
formatting through code instead of through the interface?

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"TC" <a@b.c.d> wrote in message news:1070421111 .955277@teuthos ...
Does that happen always, or unpredictably?

TC
"Allen Browne" <Al*********@Se eSig.Invalid> wrote in message
news:3f******** **************@ freenews.iinet. net.au...
Yes: have seen this bug.
No: no fix AFAIK.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"brAccess" <ca******@bol.c om.br> wrote in message
news:e1******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...
I recently installed Access 2003 and immediately noticed problems with
applications that work fine in 2000 and XP. I use conditional
formatting on continuous forms for a number of reasons. When these
forms are opened in 2003, Access seems to go into a continuous loop.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone know of a
solution short of not using conditional formatting in continuous
forms?

Here is an example:

http://www.bugnoaccess.kit.net/test1.zip

How to solve this?

Nov 12 '05 #4
TC
Ok, thanks.

Glad you got your other problem sorted!

TC
"Allen Browne" <Al*********@Se eSig.Invalid> wrote in message
news:3f******** **************@ freenews.iinet. net.au...
There's a set of conditions that it applies to.

From memory, it it has to be a calculated field that is being conditionally formatted, and the formatting seems to trigger a recalc, which triggers a
reformat, which triggers a recalc, which ...

Search groups.google.c om for posts by Stephen Lebans on this issue. I think he suggested that you can avoid the issue by assigning the conditional
formatting through code instead of through the interface?

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"TC" <a@b.c.d> wrote in message news:1070421111 .955277@teuthos ...
Does that happen always, or unpredictably?

TC
"Allen Browne" <Al*********@Se eSig.Invalid> wrote in message
news:3f******** **************@ freenews.iinet. net.au...
Yes: have seen this bug.
No: no fix AFAIK.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"brAccess" <ca******@bol.c om.br> wrote in message
news:e1******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...
> I recently installed Access 2003 and immediately noticed problems with > applications that work fine in 2000 and XP. I use conditional
> formatting on continuous forms for a number of reasons. When these
> forms are opened in 2003, Access seems to go into a continuous loop.
> Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone know of a
> solution short of not using conditional formatting in continuous
> forms?
>
> Here is an example:
>
> http://www.bugnoaccess.kit.net/test1.zip
>
> How to solve this?


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