Form with tabs: what's that side bar?

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This is probably a dumb question, but I can't find an answer.

I have a form in which I have a few different tabs.

The form (not by my design) has a vertical narrow bar on the left side, with
a little black arrow at the very top. Without clicking on it, I cannot see
the other tabs.

What is that bar? and how does that relate to my tabs. Strangely enough, in
both of my books it's not mentioned.

Thanks,
Pepe
 
Haven't you gone into design mode to try to see what this control is?
In form design mode... what are the properties of this bar? Sounds like
it's a "strecthed" out button that someone has coded to show/hide certain
Tabs, but we can only guess...

As far as I know, the only thing Access uses the left edge of a form for
are RecordSelectors.

hth
Al Camp
 
No this is an access generated item. I wish there was an easier way to
describe it.

Don't worry about it I'll figure it out somehow.

thanks,
p
 
that is the 'record selector'. though why you shoul dhave to click on it to
see the other tabs, i don't know. look in the form's on_current event proc
and see if there is any logic there to set the tag's pages' .visible
property...

from help:

Show or hide the record selector

For a form

Open the form in Design view.

Double-click the form selector to display the property sheet.

Do one of the following:

To show the record selector, set the RecordSelectors property to Yes.

To hide the record selector, set the RecordSelectors property to No.
 
This has to be the "Record Selector". On a continuous form you can see
each record selector button for each record, but on a full screen form, the
record selector is just one long button, as long as the height of the form.
hth
Al Camp
 
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