How do you save a switchboard?

[Ryan L.]

I have a file that was used in Access 2003 for years, they recently updated
the system to Vista and Office 2007, now the file does not work. What I've
found is that the paths to the macros no longer exist so I was going to
recreate them. I did so, all buttons now work appropriately but I can't save
the file. I went to save as and it only saves as a Form or Report??? I just
want to save the file on my hard drive again to update it. If I goto save as
and select save as 2007 it tries to close my file and convert it. If I just
hit save it doesn't do anything because when I try to close the program it
prompts me to "save the design of the form "Switchboard"". How the heck do
you just save the original file????

Ryan

 

[Jeanette Cunningham]

Hi Ryan,
You create a backup.
The quick way is to hold down Alt key while pressing F then M then K.


Jeanette Cunningham MS Access MVP -- Melbourne Victoria Australia

 

[Ryan L.]

When I do this it says, "do you want to save changes to the design of form
"Switchboard"?.

If I click yes, the window closes, nothing happens. If I click no it allows
me to backup the file as a new name (or same) but when I reopen the file none
of my work saved.

The actions for the buttons still give me an error, where as when I
attempted to backup the file the buttons (macro's) were working.

Any ideas?

Ryan L.

 

[Jeanette Cunningham]

Try this sequence.
Close the switchboard and save it when prompted.
Close any other open forms.

Open the switchboard and check that the buttons work as intended.
Make any needed changes and save and close the switchboard.

Now make a backup of the database.


Jeanette Cunningham MS Access MVP -- Melbourne Victoria Australia