default values in controls

[nevinx]

I have a form where I set up all the controls (text boxes) with a default
value. The only way to get the default values to show up is by pushing
ctr-alt-space while the box is selected. Is there a way to get all the
default values to fill in automatically?

 

[Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com]

In a bound form Default Values are supposed populate the controls
automatically when you move to a new record. In an unbound form they do so
when the form is first opened.

<ctr>-<alt>-<space> is intended to allow you to insert the Default if it's
been changed to something else then the user changes his mind and wants to go
back to the Default. The only thing that comes to mind is some type of
corruption of the form.

You might try the old create a new, blank db and import everything into it.
Sometimes this is all that is needed to correct the corruption.

 

[John W. Vinson]

I have a form where I set up all the controls (text boxes) with a default
value. The only way to get the default values to show up is by pushing
ctr-alt-space while the box is selected. Is there a way to get all the
default values to fill in automatically?

The default values will only populate the record when there is a new record to
populate - i.e. when you "dirty" the record by putting SOMETHING in some (any)
field in the record.

 

[Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com]

The default values will only populate the record when there is a new record to
populate - i.e. when you "dirty" the record by putting SOMETHING in some (any)
field in the record.

The Default Values will only populate the ***record*** when the user enters
something into any field in the record, making the record dirty, but the
Default Values should actually appear in the ***controls*** on the form when
the user moves to a new record, at least it always has for me. And that's
what apparently isn't happening for the OP.