Controls don't appear in detail

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I have a "single" form with a lot of unbound text fields on it. I
discovered that all of the text fields were in the Form Header. Since I was
having a problem with the scroll bars (see post "no vertical scroll bar on
form"), I tried cutting them all and pasting them into the detail area. But
now in Form view nothing shows. There's a line between the Header and
Detail area, but none of the fields in the detail show. It's all blank.
What's going on?

TIA
LAS
 
I have a "single" form with a lot of unbound text fields on it. I
discovered that all of the text fields were in the Form Header. Since I was
having a problem with the scroll bars (see post "no vertical scroll bar on
form"), I tried cutting them all and pasting them into the detail area. But
now in Form view nothing shows. There's a line between the Header and
Detail area, but none of the fields in the detail show. It's all blank.
What's going on?
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YOu'll get a totally blank form if two conditions are true: the form's
Recordsource has no records (so you can't see existing data) and it's not
updateable or additions are forbidden, so you can't see the blank "new record"
either.

More info please! The form has unbound controls; is it an unbound form (i.e.
does it have a Recordsource)? What's the purpose of the controls, and how are
you filling them? When you copied and pasted them might they have lost touch
with their event properties?
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I decided that the form was corrupt. There was no recordsource for the
form, just unbound controls. The scripts came with them. When I started
over with a new form I didn't have the problem.
 
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