Scroll Bar Uneven in Tab

[Guest]

Hi,

I created a form where the bottom is a series of tabs with different info.
The last tab is giving me a problem. In design view it looks fine, but when
displayed the last tab show the scroll bar down about 1/3 of the page so that
you have to scroll up to see the demographics on the top of the page.

When I save the design it looks fine, but when displayed it is off.

Why is this happening and only on this tab?

 

[Guest]

Does the form have a formheader (I presume you have s subform on the tab)
Often it's just a case of positioning the form a few inches to correct this
problem.

hth

 

[Guest]

No, only detail.

What I don't understand is how all of the other tabs line up fine. Only the
last one causes the problem. I am trying to check the positioning, but I
don't see any difference.

 

[Guest]

Try moving that last tab by positioning it one place to the left (on the
general tab choose move up). Is it still showing the difference or is the new
last tab showing the difference.

 

[Guest]

I didn't do exactly what you said, but you gave me the idea. I added another
tab and re-created the information, making sure that it lined up each time I
saved the info. Then I removed the tab that was giving me the problem. It
wasn't pretty, but it worked. Thanks for your help.

 

[missinglinq via AccessMonster.com]

As a general rule, when a form (or page) opens scrolled down, it means that
the first control to get focus is in the lower portion of the form/page. This
is corrected by making sure that the first control to get focus is at the top.
I suspect that when you "recreated" the tab you placed the controls from top
to bottom, thus actually doing just that, which is why the problem was
corrected.

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[Guest]

How do you make sure that the first control to get focus is at the top?

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

You set the Tab Order (under the View menu while in Design mode).

 

[Guest]

By setting the tab properties of the form. Each control has a tab-id which
you can set. An easier way is to look under the properties of the form under
'taborder'. There you can 'reposition' the taborder of the controls.