I am using Access 2007 and am puzzled by the form and report design
tab.
No matter what I do the gridlines group remains greyed out (disabled)
Has anyone had any experience with this.

"Lou O" <lgeastw... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message

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I am using Access 2007 and am puzzled by the form and report design
tab.
No matter what I do the gridlines group remains greyed out (disabled)
Has anyone had any experience with this.

Try creating a form with the wizard. You see that the gird option you speak
of don't apply to displaying or hiding the grid. That "grid" option is to
setup the "new" grid lines for the new control "layout" formatting feature
an access 2007. In other words that grid line option is grayed out and
unless the contorl you select on the form is PART OF an controll layout,
then the grid option will remain gray out.

Save for another post, but learning about the new control formatting in
access 2007 is a really an important concept and it key to a new level of
productivity of creating forms and reports in access.

If you're looking to toggle on display of the grid behind the form, then
bring up a form in design mode, and in the arrange tab in the ribbon, On the
far right you'll see a group called show/hide. it is in this group that you
can toggle display of the rulers, or in your case toggle display of the
background grid.

Because of the new control layout features, I've now turn the grids off, and
I've also turn the rulers off and this results in less clutter and a cleaner
display for the during development.

However, the options are still there for those that have been used to this
feature for years and like it, or simply need/like the grid display during
the design phase of a form.

--
Albert D. Kallal    (Access MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
pleaseNOOSpamKal... at (no spam) msn.com

On Oct 22, 10:13 pm, "Albert D. Kallal"





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"Lou O" <lgeastw... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message

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I am using Access 2007 and am puzzled by the form and report design
tab.
No matter what I do the gridlines group remains greyed out (disabled)
Has anyone had any experience with this.

Try creating a form with the wizard. You see that the gird option you speak
of don't apply to displaying or hiding the grid. That "grid" option is to
setup the "new" grid lines for the new control "layout" formatting feature
an access 2007. In other words that grid line option is grayed out and
unless the contorl you select on the form is PART OF an controll layout,
then the grid option will remain gray out.

Save for another post, but learning about the new control formatting in
access 2007 is a really an important concept and it key to a new level of
productivity of creating forms and reports in access.

If you're looking to toggle on display of the grid behind the form, then
bring up a form in design mode, and in the arrange tab in the ribbon, On the
far right you'll see a group called show/hide. it is in this group that you
can toggle display of the rulers, or in your case toggle display of the
background grid.

Because of the new control layout features, I've now turn the grids off, and
I've also turn the rulers off and this results in less clutter and a cleaner
display for the during development.

However, the options are still there for those that have been used to this
feature for years and like it, or simply need/like the grid display during
the design phase of a form.

--
Albert D. Kallal    (Access MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
pleaseNOOSpamKal... at (no spam) msn.com

Thanks Albert
I see what you mean.
I haven't used the new layout feature yet.
I've avoided that learning curve by continuing with the old way of
working with objects.
If as you say it helps productivity, I should give it some attention
soon.

Further to my other comment about Access07 help.
Is it just me or is Access07 help somewhat wanting.
For instance if I type a key word into the search box, I usually get
an extensive list of topics that from the title don't seem, for the
most, to have much to do with the topic I am trying find help on. I
have to open each topic to scroll through to try and find references
to the search word I typed in. All that comes up in the left pane is a
general table of contents.
What happened to the context and index search result panes of earlier
Access products?

I think the "Help" feature in Access hasn't worked right
since Access 97

Chuck Grimsby <cgat... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote innews:14fb8f17-8805-4122-8730-08d734e6c862 at (no spam) d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.co
m:

I think the "Help" feature in Access hasn't worked right
since Access 97

It took me some time to get used to the fact that I had to choose
where I launched HELP, from the Access window or from the VBE,
because where you start from determines whether or not you'll find
what you're looking for. This is a regression in functionality, in
my opinion, as in A97 and before, you didn't have to know which help
file the answer you needed was in, but from A2000 on, you do.

I've had fairly good results with A2003 help, once I turned off the
Internet part of it (which was always worse than useless).

--
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usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/