Vertical scroll bars don't work in Access 2007

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  • simulationguy
    New Member
    • Feb 2010
    • 27

    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
  • liimra
    New Member
    • Aug 2010
    • 119

    #2
    ?

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

    Regards,
    Ali

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    • missinglinq
      Recognized Expert Specialist
      • Nov 2006
      • 3533

      #3
      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
      HighSchoolAtten ded
      CollegeAttended
      DegreesObtained

      Page3
      FireSafetyClass
      TelephoneEtique tteClass
      EquipmentTraini ngClass

      and so forth.

      Linq ;0)>

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      • simulationguy
        New Member
        • Feb 2010
        • 27

        #4
        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.

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        • simulationguy
          New Member
          • Feb 2010
          • 27

          #5
          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

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