Detail area not visible to other users

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In my .mdb, I have a form with a header area and a detail area. I've been working on this for a month or so and have no problems seeing both areas of the form. I copied this .mdb to a cd to see how it would look on someone else's pc (screen resolution, colors, etc.) On opening this form, the other users can not see the detail area in form view but in design view, it's there. What gives?
 
JMorrell said:
In my .mdb, I have a form with a header area and a detail area. I've
been working on this for a month or so and have no problems seeing
both areas of the form. I copied this .mdb to a cd to see how it
would look on someone else's pc (screen resolution, colors, etc.) On
opening this form, the other users can not see the detail area in
form view but in design view, it's there. What gives?
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When you copy an .mdb file to a CD, it becomes read-only, and when you
copy it back off the CD, its read-only flag remains set. I imagine that
your form currently contains no records, and since the database is
read-only no records can be added -- hence, Access doesn't display the
Detail section. This is normal Access behavior: no records, no way to
add records --> no detail section.

After copying the database file off the CD to a hard disk (and before
opening it in Access), right-click on the file in Windows Explorer,
bring up its property sheet, and uncheck the Read-Only attribute. Then
all should be well.
 
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