Can't Open Form in Form View

[JAG]

I'm new to working in Access and I'm working in Access 2003. I've been
creating a form in Design View and now when I try to open the form in Form
View a message box pops up with the following "Microsoft Office Access can't
find the macro '.' The macro (or its macro group doesn't exist)..."

I don't know what macro it is referring to and can't find anywhere on the
form that refers to a macro except for two macros that are named and working
properly in another database I had created and copied from to use in the new
one.

Any ideas on how I find where the issue is and fix it?

 

[John W. Vinson]

I'm new to working in Access and I'm working in Access 2003. I've been
creating a form in Design View and now when I try to open the form in Form
View a message box pops up with the following "Microsoft Office Access can't
find the macro '.' The macro (or its macro group doesn't exist)..."

I don't know what macro it is referring to and can't find anywhere on the
form that refers to a macro except for two macros that are named and working
properly in another database I had created and copied from to use in the new
one.

Any ideas on how I find where the issue is and fix it?

Open the form in design view and view its Properties. Is there a period in one
of the fields on the Events tab? The spaces by each event should contain
either the name of an actual macro; [Event Procedure]; =functionname() (the
name of a function preceded by an equals sign); or (most commonly) should be
blank.

You may also need to look at the events tab of the Properties of each
*control* on the form... tedious...

 

[Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com]

As John has intimated, this can be a PIA! And is almost always a case of
something being entered into a properties box and then deleted, but
accidentally leaving a character, usually a period, in place. IF you remember
deleting something a given property box, that would be an excellent place to
start looking!