Data disappears from Header textboxes

[2D Rick]

Using Access2003 and XP:
In a continuous form using only a Form Header and Detail section, the
following occurs:
Three of the many textboxes in the Form Header lose visibility of their
data when the cursor moves to the Detail section. The data still exists
but it disappears.
This does not occur on the first record of this continuous form's
Detail Section, but will occur when focus moves to any other record.
Moving back to row 1 and the data appears, move to row 2 and the data
disappears.

Two of the textboxes are loaded on the Form Load Event the third has
the same format as all the other textboxes.

Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.txtTtravelerDate.Value = Date
Me.txtEngineSerial = Trim([ORDER])
End Sub

Help!
Thanks, Rick

[Rick Wannall]

For starters, code in the Form_Load event will only run once. It runs when
the form loads and never again unless you call it from some other sub of
your own, "call Form_Load". Assuming that the two controls you're talking
about are bound to fields in the recordsource of the form, what's happening
is that the form loads, the two values are copied to the controls, which
places them in the underlying fields. Then you move to another record, in
which the fields are empty, and that's what you're seeing.

Beyond the simple problem described, there is a larger problem of copying
values out of one field in a record into another field in the same record.
If you can calculate what you want to copy, generally you don't copy, you
just display the calculated value.

Are you trying to set default values on new records or something along that
line? It helps if you say not only the specific problem with the control
but the larger goal you have in mind as well.

[Ron2006]

If it is a continuous form, I find it unusual that there would be
fields displayed in the HEADER portion of the form that are coming from
the detail.

But if that is what is necesary, then put the code to load them in the
OnCurrent event NOT the OnLoad event.
Ron