Selection Rectangle on CheckBox Label

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David W. Fenton

Normal behavior when a checkbox with an attached label gets the
focus is that the selection rectangle (the dotted line rectangle)
should appear on the label. I'm working on an old database that
began life way back in Access 2 and wasn't seeing this, so figured
it was just some incompatibility between versions.

But today I had to add a new Boolean field, and this new checkbox's
label shows the selection rectangle perfectly well. So, I thought
I'd delete the old ones and recreate them.

This didn't solve the problem, but in two of the three, I do see a
flash of the selection rectangle before it disappears. I assumed
there must be some kind of font/label sizing issue, so tried making
one of the problematic labels larger. In this case, I could see the
selection rectangle in front of the checkbox itself, but nowhere
else.

I've been using the format painter to make them all the same, and
I've examined all the properties of the misbehaving and working
checkboxes, and so far as I can see they are the same.

I just hate having no visual representation of the focus (though the
label does get slightly bold, it's not enough to be obvious if
you're looking at the form trying to figure out where the focus is),
and this inconsistency is driving me crazy.

Any ideas?
 
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Peter Hibbs

David,

I had the same problem once. I found that Format -> Bring to Front
fixed it. Might be worth a try.

Peter Hibbs.
 
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David W. Fenton

I had the same problem once. I found that Format -> Bring to Front
fixed it. Might be worth a try.

I already tried that, and it didn't change anything, other than
f'ing up the tab order (the checkboxes are on a tab control).
 

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