Can't hide a field behind another field anymore

Using Access 2007. I have a form with a combo box for users when entering
data to limit their choices. I have another text box (same control source)
that I make visible for users when creating a filter. I used to be able to
"hide" the filter-only text box behind the combo box so things looked
transparent to the user. Now for some reason, when I try to do that on this
form, the two controls simply switch places! I've tried bring to front, send
to back.

This is really irritating me. It used to work so well on other projects in
the previous version of Access.

"So Call Me Crazy" wrote in
message ...
Using Access 2007. I have a form with a combo box for users when entering
data to limit their choices. I have another text box (same control
source)
that I make visible for users when creating a filter. I used to be able
to
"hide" the filter-only text box behind the combo box so things looked
transparent to the user. Now for some reason, when I try to do that on
this
form, the two controls simply switch places! I've tried bring to front,
send
to back.

This is really irritating me. It used to work so well on other projects
in
the previous version of Access.


It seems to work fine for me in Access 2007. Make sure you have selected
the text box and sent it to the back, and make sure its Tab Stop property is
set to No so that the user can't tab into it.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
Access tips: www.datagnostics.com/tips.html

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Really? Because it isn't for me. I opened a blank database and tried it
there and they're doing the same thing.

"Dirk Goldgar" wrote:

"So Call Me Crazy" wrote in
message ...
Using Access 2007. I have a form with a combo box for users when entering
data to limit their choices. I have another text box (same control
source)
that I make visible for users when creating a filter. I used to be able
to
"hide" the filter-only text box behind the combo box so things looked
transparent to the user. Now for some reason, when I try to do that on
this
form, the two controls simply switch places! I've tried bring to front,
send
to back.

This is really irritating me. It used to work so well on other projects
in
the previous version of Access.


It seems to work fine for me in Access 2007. Make sure you have selected
the text box and sent it to the back, and make sure its Tab Stop property is
set to No so that the user can't tab into it.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
Access tips: www.datagnostics.com/tips.html

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AND THE ANSWER IS!!! :

It has to do with this new Access 2007 thing called "Layouts". See Access
2007 help "Split one layout into two layouts". Then the send to back and the
send to front works.

"So Call Me Crazy" wrote:

Really? Because it isn't for me. I opened a blank database and tried it
there and they're doing the same thing.

"Dirk Goldgar" wrote:

"So Call Me Crazy" wrote in
message ...
Using Access 2007. I have a form with a combo box for users when entering
data to limit their choices. I have another text box (same control
source)
that I make visible for users when creating a filter. I used to be able
to
"hide" the filter-only text box behind the combo box so things looked
transparent to the user. Now for some reason, when I try to do that on
this
form, the two controls simply switch places! I've tried bring to front,
send
to back.

This is really irritating me. It used to work so well on other projects
in
the previous version of Access.


It seems to work fine for me in Access 2007. Make sure you have selected
the text box and sent it to the back, and make sure its Tab Stop property is
set to No so that the user can't tab into it.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
Access tips: www.datagnostics.com/tips.html

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"So Call Me Crazy" wrote in
message ...
AND THE ANSWER IS!!! :

It has to do with this new Access 2007 thing called "Layouts". See Access
2007 help "Split one layout into two layouts". Then the send to back and
the
send to front works.


That hadn't occurred to me, because I didn't use a layout when I tested.
Thanks for posting the answer.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
Access tips: www.datagnostics.com/tips.html

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