John W. Vinson wrote in
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This will happen when two conditions apply: the form's
Recordsource returns no records (so you can't see existing
records), and it's not updateable (so you can't see the blank new
record either).

Updatability is not the sole issue, but "Addability". That is,
AllowEdits has to be on (as well as AllowEdits).

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