continous form

[nydia]

can someone explain what a continous form is and how it works?

 

[John Vinson]

can someone explain what a continous form is and how it works?

It allows you to display several records at once, one above the other.

It's a bit tricky in one regard: it *looks* like you have multiple
controls (textboxes, combos, etc.), one for each record - but you
really don't; there's only one of each control, displayed multiple
times, each with the value from a different record. For this reason
putting an unbound control on a continuous form, or changing a
control's properties, may give unexpected results.

 

[nydia]

how do you create a continous form??

-----Original Message-----
works?

It allows you to display several records at once, one above the other.

It's a bit tricky in one regard: it *looks* like you have multiple
controls (textboxes, combos, etc.), one for each record - but you
really don't; there's only one of each control, displayed multiple
times, each with the value from a different record. For this reason
putting an unbound control on a continuous form, or changing a
control's properties, may give unexpected results.


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[John Vinson]

how do you create a continous form??

Open the Form in design view. Right mouseclick the little square at
the upper left and select "Properties", or use the View menu option to
view the form's properties, if the properties aren't already visible.

On the Format tab, two rows down, is "Default View". Select
"Continuous" from this list of values.

I checked out the Help in A2002 and I sympathize - the indexing is SO
bad that it's rather difficult to find information about continuous
forms! If I hadn't learned about them years ago (in Access 2.0 and 97,
which had much better Help files) it would be tough. There *is* help
for continuous forms, but you have to dig to find it, and it helps to
know where to dig... by having used continuous forms. Microsoft, take
note!