Page breaks

[Bill]

I added a page break in the middle of one of
my forms, but using the page-up or page-down
doesn't do anything other than cause the bound
text controls to change per the underlying
Recordsource. The "Default View" is "Single
Form", as specified by the HELP text for page
breaks.

What am I missing?

Bill

 

[Guest]

The Page Breaks property is really only designed to insert page breaks when
you go to print a form. It will have no effect on the display of the form.

What are you trying to accomplish with this?

Barry

 

[Bill]

I'm in the midst of modifying an application that has
many forms, all of which have the "Expedition"
background. One of the forms needs to be broken
into three different views of the current record
content. Ideally, I would use tab controls, but there
doesn't seem to be any provisions to have backgrounds
other than gray.

My thought with the page breaks was to attempt to
partition the Detail section into three pages with the
desired views in accord. The user could then hit the
page-up or page-down to switch between the views.
It seemed like a lesser amount of work than creating
sub-forms.

Bill

 

[Guest]

Since Page Breaks won't get you there, you could programmatically scroll the
form, but I actually think subforms is the best/easiest approach here.

Barry

 

[Bill]

Al Campagna showed me how to set the background
on tab controls. If he also responds positively to my
follow-on question regarding the background color of
the tabs themselves, then tab controls will work best
for what I'm trying to accomplish.

Thanks,
Bill