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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. |
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Can't hide a field behind another field anymore
"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 (please reply to the newsgroup) |
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Can't hide a field behind another field anymore
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 (please reply to the newsgroup) |
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Can't hide a field behind another field anymore
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 (please reply to the newsgroup) |
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Can't hide a field behind another field anymore
"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 (please reply to the newsgroup) |
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