Opening a Form as a tab not it's own window

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ASoldiersBride

Good Morning ~

My brain train jumped the tracks. I have a database that was orignially an
MS Access Template. One of the forms opens up as it's own window instead of
as a tab and for the life of me I can't figure out how to get it back in line.

Thanks in advance for any help
 
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strive4peace

In order to have a form be on a tab, you need to:

go to the design view of the main form

1. add a tab control
(or add a page to an existing tab control)

2. click on the page of the tab you want the form to appear on

3. choose the subform/subreport tool and put a subfomr/subreport control
on the selected page

4. specify the following properties for the new subform:

SourceObject (name of the form)
Name (I usually make this = SourceObject)
LinkMasterFields
LinkChildFields

for better understanding of the basics of Access, read this:

Access Basics (on Allen Browne's site)
http://www.allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html
8-part free tutorial that covers essentials in Access

Allen has a wealth of information on his site; after you get to the
bottom of this link, click on 'Index of Tips'

Warm Regards,
Crystal

*
:) have an awesome day :)
*
 
J

JulieS

ASoldiersBride said:
Good Morning ~

My brain train jumped the tracks. I have a database that was
orignially an
MS Access Template. One of the forms opens up as it's own window
instead of
as a tab and for the life of me I can't figure out how to get it
back in line.

Thanks in advance for any help
Click to expand...

Are you using Access 2007? If all forms are opening as overlapping
windows, it's likely you changed the Access Option for that database.
Click the Office Button and choose Access Options in the lower edge.
Click the Current Database choice and change the "Document Window
Options" to "Tabbed Documents".

If it is just one form in the database that is appearing in its own
window and all others are appearing in the tabbed documents, you may
have set the Pop Up property of the form to "yes". Set it back to
"No" and it should go back to the tabbed look.

(The contacts template uses a pop up form for the Contact Details
form).

I hope this helps.

Julie
 
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