My Tabs vanish from the top of my tab control

[mincefish]

I've got a 2 page tab control in an Access97 form, and all the controls are unbound, which I have created today. Earlier, I could see those tabs when I went to view the form, but now (and I'm not sure what knock-on effect has happenned here) no matter how far down the detail of the form I move the tab control, I still can't see the tabs.

Even if I put a command button, or a label between the 'Detail' bar, and the tab control, it still shows the contents of the opening tab, and not the tabs, or the command button above.

Its a bind, and I can remember getting this before, and I solved it, but I can't for the life of me remember what I did....I'm sure there is something in the properties to fix this, but everything I've tried has had no effect.

Any help will be very gratefully received, as I am baffled!!

Thanks

The Mincefish.

--Black holes are where God divided by zero

 

[tunsarod]

I suspect that you have inadvertantly set your Tab controls' Style property to None.

Try resetting it to Tabs.

Rod

 

[mincefish]

Its not, unfortunately, that simple! If the style was set to 'None', then I wouldn't be able to see the tabs in design view. I can see them in design view, just not when I actually run the form.....

Hmmmm.......Help!!

The Mincefish ;-)

--Black holes are where God divided by zero

 

[mincefish]

By way of extra information, I have found that if I tab through all the controls on the form, when the form is running, I eventually get to the tabs on the tab control. When I reach those, the tab control seems to move down the form, and the tabs become visible.....

The Mincefish ;-)

--Black holes are where God divided by zero

 

[B827]

Is it something a simple the tabs being masked by something else? Have you tried using the format and bringing it to the front? Sandy

 

[JohnAldriedge]

I had a similar problem that was solved for me by someone here in this forum. The disappearing tabs had to do with resolution. I designed the form on a PC with a higher resolution that that of the PCs of some of my users. Those with lower resolution couldn't see the tabs. Don't know if this is a possibility in your case, but thought I'd throw it into the disappearing tabs discussion...

 

[kpereira]

You might want to check to see if your form needs to be resized. If a form is sized too small for the entire tab control it will cut off parts of it...this often means the tabs disappearing.

K. Pereira

 

[mincefish]

Indcedentally, if you are someone searching for a solution to the same problem, I did solve this....and its upsettingly easy.

If you open the form, then goto:

Window > Size To Fit Form

This should make the tabs visible.

Brilliant.