Text on tabbed form vanishes

[BethMc]

On my tabbed form, when I re-saved it as a report, the Print Preview mode
shows none of the text/controls/anything on the 2nd and 3rd tab. Completely
blank. Visible is set to Yes on all pages.
Everything shows up fine in Design View.
Everyone is really great about trying to talk me through all the stuff
that isn't in the book I have; all the help is very much appreciated.

 

[John W. Vinson]

On my tabbed form, when I re-saved it as a report, the Print Preview mode
shows none of the text/controls/anything on the 2nd and 3rd tab. Completely
blank. Visible is set to Yes on all pages.
Everything shows up fine in Design View.
Everyone is really great about trying to talk me through all the stuff
that isn't in the book I have; all the help is very much appreciated.

Forms have tab controls (because you can interact with them and display one or
another tab).

Reports do not, because reports aren't interactive.

You'll need to copy the controls from the second and third tab pages onto the
body of the form itself (staying within the 22" size limit unfortunately).

 

[BethMc]

Ouch... what's the use of tab pages if you can't do anything on them?? My
original form was all on one page, but I had to use tiny print to get
everything on it within that 22" limit.
Let me be sure I understand: none of the tab pages after the first one
can have anything on them that needs to print out. Yet, the report insists
on printing a blank page for each of those tab pages... so why can't it print
anything on them?
I'm so confused... Thank you for your help.

 

[Rick Brandt]

Ouch... what's the use of tab pages if you can't do anything on
them?? My original form was all on one page, but I had to use tiny
print to get everything on it within that 22" limit.
Let me be sure I understand: none of the tab pages after the first
one can have anything on them that needs to print out. Yet, the
report insists on printing a blank page for each of those tab
pages... so why can't it print anything on them?
I'm so confused... Thank you for your help.

It's fairly simple actually.

TabControls work great on Forms and make no sense on Reports.

Reports are for printing and Forms are not.

Following those two rules you are never in a position to be printing
anything that has a TabControl on it.

 

[John W. Vinson]

Ouch... what's the use of tab pages if you can't do anything on them?? My
original form was all on one page, but I had to use tiny print to get
everything on it within that 22" limit.

Not knowing what's on the report it's hard to say, but perhaps you can use a
Report with Subreports (each of which gets its own 22").

Let me be sure I understand: none of the tab pages after the first one
can have anything on them that needs to print out. Yet, the report insists
on printing a blank page for each of those tab pages... so why can't it print
anything on them?
I'm so confused... Thank you for your help.

I suspect that the blank pages may have nothing whatsoever to do with the tab
control. If your report design extends even one twip (1/144 ") outside the
Page Setup margins you'll get a blank page.

 

[BethMc]

To be more specific: it's an agreement form for customers to fill out to
rent a Jeep. First tabbed page is customer info. & insurance; 2nd is the
legal terms, with an "I agree" checkbox; 3rd is specific rules & advice, with
another "I agree" button. I need it ALL to print out so we have hard-copy
proof, for the customer to sign, of what has been agreed to.
Everything is on a form, which was then re-saved as a Report. (All the
terms/rules are on the form in a series of Memo boxes, if that matters.)
Thank you. I've been struggling with this for weeks, and I have to
produce something soon.

 

[BethMc]

Okay, I've dealt with it - the tabbed form for easy reading and filling in,
but for the report, back to the tiny-print version all on one page. It still
shows accurately what the renter signed and agreed to.
Thank you for your patience and assistance.

 

[John W. Vinson]

Okay, I've dealt with it - the tabbed form for easy reading and filling in,
but for the report, back to the tiny-print version all on one page. It still
shows accurately what the renter signed and agreed to.

well... it's an old tradition for rental agreements to have a lot of small
print... :-{(

If you have Memo Fields you could design the report with each memo in a
textbox one line high (to get under the 22" limit); set the CanGrow and
CanShrink properties of these textboxes and they'll expand to print the actual
contents of the memo on each record. I *BELIEVE* this will expand beyond the
22" limit, or at least it will let you print multiple sheets of paper for one
report.