Can't move the focus to the control

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IanC

I've just had a new laptop. The first thing I did was to get evrything up to
date from the MS website (Windows and Office).

When I try to open a local copy of our company database, I get the message
"Microsoft Access can't move the focus to the control Image19".

I realise that an image can't receive the focus, but I didn't have (and
still don't have) this issue on my old laptop. I'm still using Access 2000,
so this isn't the problem. The only thing I can think of that is different
is that I've applied XP SP3 to the new laptop, whereas the old one is still
on SP2.

Are there any known issues of compatibility between Office 2000 and Windows
XP SP3? I've not come across anything else causing problems (not that I've
done much on this laptop yet).

I've tried removing/reinstalling Office (after trying the repair and
reinstall options).

Any ideas?

Ian
 
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Dale Fye

Not sure about the issues, but check Allen Browne's website
(http://www.allenbrowne.com/) and click the Access Tips hyperlink near the
top of the page. From my perspective, he has one of the best sites for
tracking down and documenting these types of issues.

Resolution:
Whenever I have a form that uses the SetFocus method, I add a dummy
(txtDummy) textbox to the form. I generally put it in the upper left corner
of the form, and set its background and border properties to transparent. I
then set its width to 0. Then, in my error handler procedure, I include a
test to see whether the err.number = xxxx (don't remember the number off the
top of my head), and if it is, I set the focus to txtDummy.

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HTH
Dale

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