What prevents opening a form in design view?

[Gene Wittry]

I have one form in a database that cannot be opened, even in design view. No
other form has this problem. Please, what is the cause and the solution?

 

[Allen Browne]

The symptoms indicate that the form has become corrupt.

It may be possible to use the undocumented SaveAsText/LoadFromText to get
Access to recreate this form. Details:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-47.html#SaveAsText

If that doesn't work, delete the form, compact the database, and import that
form from an older backup.

 

[Gene Wittry]

I haven't figured out wow to save the form as text. Will work on it.

I tried solution 2, and it didn't work. I'll try to get another copy of the
database from another computer.

Many thanks,
Gene