Vertical scroll bar not appearing in textbox

[tedmillerx]

I've seen a similar issue posted back in '04, but there wasn't a solution that helped me, so...

I'm in Access 2002 format. I have a form which contains a textbox. My problem is that no vertical scrollbar is appearing in the textbox, even when not all the text is visible, and even when I have the cursor in the textbox.

I have 'Scroll Bars' set to 'Vertical'.
I have 'Scroll Bar Align' set to 'Right'.
'Can Grow' and 'Can Shrink' are of course set to 'No'.
'Enter Key Behavior' is set to 'New Line in Field'.

I can't think of anything else I should be doing to get this to work. Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[ZmrAbdulla]

AFIK scrollbar appears only when the textbox has focus.
CanShrink, Can Grow properties work only in print/printpreview.

See

http://www.lebans.com/autosize_textbox.htm

for API call to resize the textbox.

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Zameer Abdulla
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[tedmillerx]

The textbox does have focus, but the scrollbar still isn't appearing.
I don't want to have the box auto resize, because there is no knowing how much text my users will be entering. I really need the scrollbar within the textbox.

 

[ZmrAbdulla]

Create another text box and see if it shows the scrollbar up

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Zameer Abdulla
Help to find Missing people
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[tedmillerx]

Thanks! I hadn't thought of trying that, and it worked. I found that the cause of the problem was that I had margins in place on the text box. It seems that the scrollbar will only appear if the margins are set to 0".

I don't suppose there's a way to keep my margins and still have the scroll bar show up, anyone? It just looked a lot slicker with the margins in place.

Thanks for the help though - I'm glad to get those scrollbars back.