Cheers wilir
it turned out the forms that were remaining blank were the ones which contained no data in the tables, they worked fine after i had put test data into them. Cheers i would not have been able to have known that without your help.
one other problem though is, if someone enters the database on the machine it is held on, noone else can enter into the database, Is there a way around this. Only one peron will be entering the data, the rest need to view it for entries, would this be something to do with setting rights to the file or anything?
cheers willir if only i could give you more than one star lol