Fields disappear on Access Form

[Tom Burke]

I was working on a form in 2007 Access. I had some invisible fields that I had used in testing and was deleting them one at a time to see which ones I needed to keep. When I went back to the View mode, all of the fields were gone. They are still there in Design mode however. Prior to doing this, I copied the form, just to be safe, and let Access attach the "Copy of" in from of the form name. I thought I was okay until I opened the copied form and found the same problem. I could really use an answer to this problem and thank you in advance.

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[need to retire]

If the controls are deleted, they will be gone.

If the controls properties Visible are set False, they will not be Visible in
View Mode but will be Visible in Design Mode.

So, you answered your own question or will that solved the problem?

Sorry, not the problem. My form is a login view. Username, password
and enter button. All of these were visible. I had a combination of 5
invisible objects (listbox, combobox etc.) that I had used in testing
out my form. Once I had everything working, and saved, the next day I
reopened the form and started to delete the invisible objects one at a
time. Each time I would delete one, I would go back to the view and
test out my login process. The first list box I deleted caused an
error so I closed the form and said "Don't save the changes". When I
opened the form back up it worked fine. I then deleted a combobox and
tested that. Everything worked fine, I could still see my three items
on the View. The next hidden item I tried to delete was another
combobox. When I went to the View screen, everything was gone, no
Username, Password or enter button. I then closed that form, opened up
the copy of the form I had done earlier and that also was totally
blank, in the detail area I should add. I do have a logo in the Header
area and that still shows. Hope that clarifies my problem.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I was working on a form in 2007 Access. I had some invisible fields that I
had used in testing and was deleting them one at a time to see which ones I
needed to keep. When I went back to the View mode, all of the fields were
gone. They are still there in Design mode however. Prior to doing this, I
copied the form, just to be safe, and let Access attach the "Copy of" in
from of the form name. I thought I was okay until I opened the copied form
and found the same problem. I could really use an answer to this problem
and thank you in advance.

Are there records in the form's recordsource (table or query)? Is the
form's recordsource updatable? Is the form's Allow Additions property set
to No?