Form problem

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Jim Robson

I going to do a Microsoft Office Course in the near future and have bought
some books to get a head start, but I can't resolve this problem with tables
and forms in Access. When I first started using Access it worked as I assume
it should with the Table & Form Wizard laying out the Tables & Forms in the
normal manner. Now I find that when I use the Wizards the Table or Form
presents a mirror image to what it used to.

I will explain further, in the book I'm using for Access, Microsoft
Office Access 2003, Step By Step; the form on page 86 is normal. When I
construct a form now the Label controls is on the right and the Text control
is on the left. Also when I construct a new Table the columns display in
reverse order, i.e.. the Autonumber column is on the right and the other
items are displayed right to left.

One other point Tables & Forms that I made previously are still in the
correct format so I guess that I must have changed a property somehow but I
have tried to change the properties back to the default setting, including
the Form Left-To-Right but to no avail.
Any help will be gratefully appreciated.
Regards, Jim.
 
Jim Robson said:
I going to do a Microsoft Office Course in the near future and have
bought some books to get a head start, but I can't resolve this
problem with tables and forms in Access. When I first started using
Access it worked as I assume it should with the Table & Form Wizard
laying out the Tables & Forms in the normal manner. Now I find that
when I use the Wizards the Table or Form presents a mirror image to
what it used to.

I will explain further, in the book I'm using for Access,
Microsoft Office Access 2003, Step By Step; the form on page 86 is
normal. When I construct a form now the Label controls is on the
right and the Text control is on the left. Also when I construct a
new Table the columns display in reverse order, i.e.. the Autonumber
column is on the right and the other items are displayed right to
left.

One other point Tables & Forms that I made previously are still
in the correct format so I guess that I must have changed a property
somehow but I have tried to change the properties back to the default
setting, including the Form Left-To-Right but to no avail.
Any help will be gratefully appreciated.
Regards, Jim.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure if you're telling us that you've done this already, but
click Tools -> Options.., go to the International tab, and make sure
that Default Direction is set to Left-to-right.
 
Dirk Goldgar said:
I'm not sure if you're telling us that you've done this already, but
click Tools -> Options.., go to the International tab, and make sure
that Default Direction is set to Left-to-right.
Click to expand...

That fixed it, Dick. Thanks a million, this may seem a small problem to some
people but it was driving me up the wall. Thanks again.
Jim.
 
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