How do I get rid of the thick black lines that are printing across my form
when I print the form for a record. The lines are not there in print preview
but seem to be in the background of the form I'm using. I'm using a tabed
form with three tabs. Any suggestions?

Thanks

I'm guessing you are talking about the section dividing lines?

These can be disabled ... open the properties for the FORM and change the
Dividing Line property to NO.

Shaun Beane

"Cris" wrote:

> How do I get rid of the thick black lines that are printing across my form
> when I print the form for a record. The lines are not there in print preview
> but seem to be in the background of the form I'm using. I'm using a tabed
> form with three tabs. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks

Forms are really intended for printing: that's what reports are for.
Fortunately, you can convert a form to a report. Right-click on the report
in the database container, and choose "Save As Report"

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
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"Cris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> How do I get rid of the thick black lines that are printing across my form
> when I print the form for a record. The lines are not there in print
preview
> but seem to be in the background of the form I'm using. I'm using a tabed
> form with three tabs. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks

Let's be clear: are you printing the form, or calling the report "a
form"?

If the former, open the form in design view, right click in the little
square to the left of the horizontal ruler, choose "Properties". Go to
the "All" tab, and look for "Dividing Lines" and make sure that's set
to "No".

Now, if you're referring to the report you would normally print as a
"form", and you used the wizard to create it, it may be that the style
you chose has a horizontal line separating different sections, but you
can't see the line in design view because it's almost but not quite
hidden by the gray section separator.

Determine where this mysterious line appears, go to that section of the
form in design view, and drag the grey section divider down to make the
area in question larger. You may see a horizontal line then, which you
can delete, and then return the grey section divider to its original
placement.

Hope this helps!