Why can't I just copy a form and edit the fields?

[SteveC]

Hi,

This drives me crazy. I have a new table and I like the form already done
for the other table, so I copy the form and rename it to match the tabel and
then go to design view and even though I try to delink the form from the old
table, Access 07 just blitely matches all changes back to the original form
so if I get the new form right, I have the old form wrong.

What do I do?

 

[John Vinson]

Hi,

This drives me crazy. I have a new table and I like the form already done
for the other table, so I copy the form and rename it to match the tabel and
then go to design view and even though I try to delink the form from the old
table, Access 07 just blitely matches all changes back to the original form
so if I get the new form right, I have the old form wrong.

What do I do?

Probably left the "Name Autocorrect" feature turned on.

Tools... Options... General. Uncheck "Track Name Autocorrect
Information". It's still buggy, even in 2007.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[SteveC]

That didn't seem to work. Thanks though.

Probably left the "Name Autocorrect" feature turned on.

Tools... Options... General. Uncheck "Track Name Autocorrect
Information". It's still buggy, even in 2007.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[Ron2006]

Just a question from someone who has not tried Access 2007.

Is that form, a single form which is itself linked to a table/query?

Or is it an unbound form, with a subform on it linked to the
table/query?

Ron

 

[SteveC]

a form linked to a table

 

[Ron2006]

Well, there goes that idea.

Sounds like something I will want to avoid.

Wish you luck - I wish it could be a solution.

Ron

 

[SteveC]

Thanks Ron. I actually have most of it working now. Just don't ask me how
I did it.

 

[Ron2006]

I always get worried about those types of solutions.

If it fixed itself on some mysterious condition? How easily will it
UN-Fix itself on some equally mysterious codition?

Not that I can do a whole lot about either of the mysterious
conditions.

Ron