ActiveX controls not scrolling properly

[Richard Peart]

I am using some activeX controls(textbox, combobox,
checkbox) on a form in Word 2000. When I scroll the form
out of design mode the form moves(including the controls)
but another copy of the controls remain fixed on the form
until I stop scrolling.

This happens on all the machines in my office but works
fine on my laptop. Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Mark Tangard]

Richard,

Unfortunately the slow-or-no-scrolling syndrome is more the
norm than the exception with ActiveX controls embedded in a
document, which is why you don't see them there much at all.
Later versions tend to demonstrate this effect less horribly,
which may explain why your laptop -- if it's running a newer
version of Word -- handles this OK. Or some might say it's
sold its soul to the Devil and that's why. (I've seen more
than a few systems where merely trying to insert a control
in a document consistently crashes Word right away.) You'll
get thousands of hits if you Google on ActiveX+scrolling and
virtually all of them say the same thing.

The standard advice is: don't use them unless you absolutely
can't avoid it, and you can just about always avoid it. The
"right" place for ActiveX controls is in a userform, where
they (1) can accomplish essentially all of the same functions
as when they're embedded within a document, (2) allow about
nine zillion more adjustments, and (3) are quite stable.