Help with Auto Formats

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I am very new to Access, but have a good knowledge of other microsoft products. I am plowing through this on a crach couse trying to learn access. I am doing alright, but ran into a problem which is probably simple but I don't know what to do

I am using Access 2002 and was setting up a form and I deleted one of the autoformats (calls Blends), and I don't know how to get it back into the list. I see now how I deleted it but how do I get it back (it is one of the ones that comes with access), and on a similiar note, if I want to, how do I add new ones (but mainly I need to get the old one back)

Thanks for any help you can give me on this as I am totally los

James Stephens
 
You probably have to install Access 2002 again.

James Stephens said:
I am very new to Access, but have a good knowledge of other microsoft
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products. I am plowing through this on a crach couse trying to learn
access. I am doing alright, but ran into a problem which is probably simple
but I don't know what to do.
I am using Access 2002 and was setting up a form and I deleted one of the
Click to expand...
autoformats (calls Blends), and I don't know how to get it back into the
list. I see now how I deleted it but how do I get it back (it is one of the
ones that comes with access), and on a similiar note, if I want to, how do I
add new ones (but mainly I need to get the old one back).
 
Microsoft has posted a fix in their Knowledgebase:

How to Recover a Deleted or Missing AutoFormat Style
http://tinyurl.com/56qmt

To recover an AutoFormat style, follow these steps:
1. Start the copy of Access that contains the AutoFormat style that yo
want to recover, create a new database, and then name it Db1.mdb.
2. Create a new blank form, and then name it Form1.
3. In Design view, click AutoFormat on the Format menu, click the nam
of the missing AutoFormat style, and then click OK.
4. Save the form, close the database, and then quit Access.
5. Do one of the following:
- If you are using one computer with two copies of Access, go to th
next step.

-or-

- If you are using two computers, copy Db1.mdb to a floppy disk, an
then insert the disk into the floppy disk drive of the first computer
where the AutoFormat style is missing.
6. Start the copy of Access where the AutoFormat style is missing, ope
Db1.mdb, and then open Form1 in Design view.
7. On the Format menu, click AutoFormat, and then click Customize.
8. Click Create a new AutoFormat that is based on the Form 'Form1', an
then click OK.
9. In the Style Name box, type the name of the AutoFormat style, an
then click OK.

The new style is now available in the Form AutoFormats list


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