Control tips won't show - 2002/XP

[Tony Vrolyk]

I know this is an old issue that has been addressed before. But I wanted to
give it another try.

In my application I cannot get control tips to show. The usual advice is to
move any boxes to the back or to move the control to the front. I have moved
the control to the front and there are no boxes on the form. As a test I
created a new form, dropped in a button and gave it a control tip - nothing.
I saved the form and reopened - nothing
I repaired and compacted the app - nothing
I decompiled, compiled, repaired and compacted - nothing
I am using Office Dev and ran the app in runtime mode - nothing
I created an mde - nothing

Am I missing somthing? Is there a master setting to turn these on/off that I
can't seem to find? Or is there a know issue I haven't seen referenced? Any
help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Tony Vrolyk

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

Even if there are no other controls on the form, using "Bring To Front"
action on the control is what usually works for me to make control tip text
appear. I am using ACCESS 2002.

It's possible that there is corruption in the form/database. Try importing
all objects into a new database and see what happens.