check box question

[LilMsSunshine]

This may sound like a daft problem but I'm not too experienced with Access
and it's got me stuck, and I can't find any other similar posts on the forum.
I've created a very simple form with instructions for a user to follow, and
after each instruction I've put a checkbox so they can tick each step as they
go through.

The problem is that the checkboxes do not update when you open the form and
click them, however if you open the form, put it in design view then back to
form view and click the boxes, the checkboxes update.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd be really grateful!

Thanks.

 

[John W. Vinson]

This may sound like a daft problem but I'm not too experienced with Access
and it's got me stuck, and I can't find any other similar posts on the forum.
I've created a very simple form with instructions for a user to follow, and
after each instruction I've put a checkbox so they can tick each step as they
go through.

The problem is that the checkboxes do not update when you open the form and
click them, however if you open the form, put it in design view then back to
form view and click the boxes, the checkboxes update.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd be really grateful!

Thanks.

You may have started developing your database in the middle: with forms.

Forms are *JUST WINDOWS*. Data is not stored in forms; forms don't "remember"
what was put into them!

Data is stored in Tables, and only in Tables. You need to start *with your
table structures* and only when they are correct work on your forms.

See:

Jeff Conrad's resources page:
http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie/resources.html

The Access Web resources page:
http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html

A free tutorial written by Crystal (MS Access MVP):
http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html

MVP Allen Browne's tutorials:
http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials