Forms Vertical Scroll Bar

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a Form with a lot of controls on it. To the point that not all will
fit on 1 screen.
So I set this Form's "Scroll Bar" property to "Vertical Only". Yet the
Vertical scroll Bars do not appear when the Form opens, you can't see the
controls at the bottom & I can not scroll down to see them.

Can anyone help me to get the Vertical Scroll Bars to appear so I can have
all the controls I want on the Form & just have user scroll down.

Thank you,
Jeff

 

[Guest]

Hi, Jeff.

Can anyone help me to get the Vertical Scroll Bars to appear so I can have
all the controls I want on the Form & just have user scroll down.

Form scrollbars can only be used on the Detail section of the form, so
ensure that the controls that need to be scrolled to are located in the
Detail section, not one of the header or footer sections. Also, if any of
the header or footer sections, or any combination thereof, exceeds a certain
vertical height (this varies, since it is dependent upon screen resolution
and Window size), then the Detail section won't appear on the form or have a
vertical scrollbar.

HTH.

Gunny

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[Mark]

You might want to read up on the Tab Control and group related controls on
tabs to better organize them and present a cleaner user interface...

 

[AlCamp]

Sounds like Camaro your initial problem solved, but I wanted to add...

I totally agree with Mark.

There's nothing tougher to work with than a form that has to be paged
down/up, or left/right. Not only from a design aspect, but from the users
as well.
Use Tabs to organize all those fields onto one screen... it's quick and easy
to do, and makes for a much better interface.
hth
Al Camp