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Vertical scroll bars don't work in Access 2007

Any of you run into this, i have tried setting the properties of the form to vertical scroll bars only and both neither seems to work. The horizontal scroll bar works fine but its a long form and I cant scroll or page down or anything to get to all of the fields.

Works fine in design mode but not form view
Aug 29 '10 #1

✓ answered by missinglinq

Forcing users to scroll a form is considered by most experienced developers to be the absolute epitome of user-unfriendliness!

If a form is too big to view without scrolling the usual solution is to utilize a Tabbed Control. This approach also has the advantage of allowing the logical grouping of controls.

For example, in an employee database, you could organize data like:

Page1
FirstName
LastName
DOB
Address
Phone

Page2
HighSchoolAttended
CollegeAttended
DegreesObtained

Page3
FireSafetyClass
TelephoneEtiquetteClass
EquipmentTrainingClass

and so forth.

Linq ;0)>

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Can you attach the database (just the form you are having problem with)?

Regards,
Ali
Aug 29 '10 #2
missinglinq
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Forcing users to scroll a form is considered by most experienced developers to be the absolute epitome of user-unfriendliness!

If a form is too big to view without scrolling the usual solution is to utilize a Tabbed Control. This approach also has the advantage of allowing the logical grouping of controls.

For example, in an employee database, you could organize data like:

Page1
FirstName
LastName
DOB
Address
Phone

Page2
HighSchoolAttended
CollegeAttended
DegreesObtained

Page3
FireSafetyClass
TelephoneEtiquetteClass
EquipmentTrainingClass

and so forth.

Linq ;0)>
Aug 29 '10 #3
Thanks but I discovered the issue, it was a single form
and I had all of the fields in the header section instead of the detail section so I took a hack at it and moved all the fields to the detail section and the scroll bars work like they are supposed too.
Aug 29 '10 #4
Thanks I think I will reorganize it with tabs I didn't think about that at first because its one of those that started out with just a few fields and they keep adding to it incrementally
Aug 29 '10 #5

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