msaccess bug: has anybody seen this one and would know what to do

[ipk*]

hello all ...

recently, in my msaccess database, whenever i try to create a new form, i
get some very strange behaviour in the design interface. when in "properties"
( i hope this translates correctly from german) i want to show the properties
of the form (i.e. right bouse button -> properties -> datasource ...), i have
no possibility to chose the "detail" section of the form, rather the pulldown
at the top of the design properties interface concatenates the names for all
the sections of the form, which (in german) the looks like this:

DetailbereichFormularkopfFormularkopf

and so on. in some cases, at least it lets me chose the formheader and other
sections, in other cases all i get is blank lines in the pulldown.

i have already tried to "repair" my complete office installation, but that
would not work. any ideas. i have not been able to find anything like this
anywhere in the internet, but i though that, maybe, some of you who deal with
msaccess all day long have run into this one and know what i am talking about
....

1000 thanks already, for all tips ...

cheers

ingo

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

I have not seen this before. This may be specific to the German language
version of Access. There are German language Access newsgroups which you can
access from a newsreader like Outlook Express or Windows Mail. Try this
newsgroup:

microsoft.public.de.access

 

[John W. Vinson]

hello all ...

recently, in my msaccess database, whenever i try to create a new form, i
get some very strange behaviour in the design interface. when in "properties"
( i hope this translates correctly from german) i want to show the properties
of the form (i.e. right bouse button -> properties -> datasource ...), i have
no possibility to chose the "detail" section of the form, rather the pulldown
at the top of the design properties interface concatenates the names for all
the sections of the form, which (in german) the looks like this:

DetailbereichFormularkopfFormularkopf

and so on. in some cases, at least it lets me chose the formheader and other
sections, in other cases all i get is blank lines in the pulldown.

i have already tried to "repair" my complete office installation, but that
would not work. any ideas. i have not been able to find anything like this
anywhere in the internet, but i though that, maybe, some of you who deal with
msaccess all day long have run into this one and know what i am talking about
...

1000 thanks already, for all tips ...

cheers

ingo

What version of Access? Have you applied all the Service Packs? A2007 had some
"Hotfixes" - additional corrected code over and above the hotfixes; have you
obtained them?

 

[ipk*]

thanks to all the replies. i had one more idea this morning and that was
deleting all labels on the form and re-doing them. don't ask me how i came up
with this idea, but i somehow had the impression, that whenever i generated a
new form, based on this defective one, or better, whenever i copied the
complete collection of labels from this form to a new one, the new form would
be equally messed up. and, by the way, all other form i would open
thereafter. very strange. i could open any old form and change its
properties, but as soon as this specific form was opened, the properties
dialog was messed up. so ... anyways ... there were a few labels with text
and equally named "lbl_quantity [ug]" or "lbl_concentration [mg]/ [m l]" in
there. it seems msaccess did not like that. the result was remotely
reminicent of what you get when you write over assigned memory boundaries. so
far, i think, the problem went away after giving the new labels more standard
names.

hope this helps someone somewhere someday ...

greetings

ingo

 

[ipk*]

completely up to date all patches, service packs etc installed. but i THINK i
found the problem (see above ...) ... i THINK ...

thanks anyways ...

ingo

 

[asus]

thanks to all the replies. i had one more idea this morning and that was
deleting all labels on the form and re-doing them. don't ask me how i came
up
with this idea, but i somehow had the impression, that whenever i
generated a
new form, based on this defective one, or better, whenever i copied the
complete collection of labels from this form to a new one, the new form
would
be equally messed up. and, by the way, all other form i would open
thereafter. very strange. i could open any old form and change its
properties, but as soon as this specific form was opened, the properties
dialog was messed up. so ... anyways ... there were a few labels with text
and equally named "lbl_quantity [ug]" or "lbl_concentration [mg]/ [m l]"
in
there. it seems msaccess did not like that. the result was remotely
reminicent of what you get when you write over assigned memory boundaries.
so
far, i think, the problem went away after giving the new labels more
standard
names.

hope this helps someone somewhere someday ...

greetings

ingo

hello all ...

recently, in my msaccess database, whenever i try to create a new form, i
get some very strange behaviour in the design interface. when in
"properties"
( i hope this translates correctly from german) i want to show the
properties
of the form (i.e. right bouse button -> properties -> datasource ...), i
have
no possibility to chose the "detail" section of the form, rather the
pulldown
at the top of the design properties interface concatenates the names for
all
the sections of the form, which (in german) the looks like this:

DetailbereichFormularkopfFormularkopf

and so on. in some cases, at least it lets me chose the formheader and
other
sections, in other cases all i get is blank lines in the pulldown.

i have already tried to "repair" my complete office installation, but
that
would not work. any ideas. i have not been able to find anything like
this
anywhere in the internet, but i though that, maybe, some of you who deal
with
msaccess all day long have run into this one and know what i am talking
about
...

1000 thanks already, for all tips ...

cheers

ingo