I have two list boxes in a form. One of them is bigger than other. Smaller one was placed at the back of bigger one. I tried position > bring front for smaller one and position > send back for bigger one, but didn't work. Also, tried to change Tab index in Other menu and wrote codes Me.Repaint and Me.List.SetFocus but they didn't work neither. Is there any way to change to bring smaller list front?
Right clicking on the listbox and select Position -> bring to front should work (in Access 2013), but the layout of two listboxes are a bit messed up then.
A Listbox is not ment to be on another listbox, and I cannot imagine why you want to do this. What are you trying to achieve here?
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Below is the output I'm getting. Even when all options are collapsed, I have a ton of empty space that I'd love to eliminate. I have tried row visibility and textbox visibility, but those are currently working to keep my expand/collapse working correctly, I believe. I also tried looking in the properties pane (F4) and messing with the CanGrow/CanShrink properties but no luck in changing output.
How do I fix this?
UPDATE: Here is the design view
Undo all the visibility changes you have made, and probably the undo the group expand collapse changes you made so you have a fresh start.. Even better, create the tablix from scratch again.
Then on the row group properties under the main design window, right-click the row group you want to initially hide and choose properties.
On the visibility tab.. Select "Hide" (if you want the rows in this group to be hidden when the report opens). Then Check the box "Display can be toggled by this report item" and choose the name of text box from the parent group that you want to click to expand. For example, if you were hiding the 'day' group, selected the text box that contains your month name (default this will be the same as the field name).
That's it, just those two steps to achieve what you want. You can repeat this process the month group using year as the toggle etc..
Ultimately, I found a solution by using Report Builder to do what I wanted it to do. I was able to get the output by visually confirming the template. What's strange, is that when I created it, I then opened it up in Visual Studio to see how it differed, and there was absolutely no visibility changes. Meaning, no cells or rows had the Hide option checkboxed.
Furthermore, it differs from what I built previously by not having the extra columns within the grouping, and maybe that's where the extra blank space was coming from. But unfortunately, I found no quantifiable explanation to better help others.
Is there a way in Access 2016 to make the Access objects Icons smaller, I have a lot of objects in the database and the icons are very big.
Ideally like the picture on the right, I am sure that i am missing something simple, but not been in Access for a long time. I have looked around in the access navigation options etc, but cant seem to find an option for this.
Right click at a free space below that tables list (not directly on a table).
Click "View By"
Choose "List".
And it looks exactly like your right screenshot.
By the way "List" is the default so you must somehow have changed it to "Details" previously.
I was moving tablixes around my page and ended up with some stuck inside the header row of another like so;
It definitely isn't overlaid, I have that going on with my other tablixes at the top of the page, as intended. These have somehow merged so when I try to grab the corner handle I have to click it multiple times to turn into the move handle and then only the main table is moveable, I can't grab and move the tables that have merged into the bigger one.
It's stopped the report from running and I can't find a way to take it out, I can't undo past a certain point either as I saved and rebooted my PC before I realised it was this problem that was causing my errors.
Does anyone know any way to take the damn things back out or do I have to redo hours of work? :'(
Refer to the screenshot below.
Click somewhere inside the nested table. You should see the column/row outlines like in the picture
Left click the top left corner handle
Ctrl-x to cut and then ctrl-v to paste somewhere else on the page.
In a broader context, you can use the right-click and then Select option to select any item that is layered with others.
I have a form including listboxes. I'm trying to change order of listboxes. I tried bring front or send back but they are not working in form view. I found z index property for arranging their priority. However, following codes are not working. Is this correct way to do it? Or is there any other way with or without codes to do this?
Me.Controls.SetChildIndex (Me.List0 , Me.List1)
Thanks for any help.
Without using code:
You can change the z-order by right-clicking any control and selecting "Position" then selecting either "Bring to Front" or "Send to Back."
Unfortunately, Access does not support the ZOrder method for manipulation using code. Microsoft Forms does support the ZOrder method which can get confusing when it comes up on Access Help.
As I reread your question, I wonder if you're talking about tab order. If so, right-click and bring up "Properties," select the "Other" tab, then adjust the "Tab Index" property. Also, make sure that the "Tab Stop" property immediately beneath is set to "Yes." In code you would use FormName.ControlName.TabIndex=0 to set a control to the first tab position.
Hope this helps!
Reference: Personal experience (and hours of frustration)
docmd.RunCommand acCmdDesignView
forms("form1").Controls("text0").inselection=true
docmd.runcommand acCmdSendToBack '(or docmd.runcommand acCmdBringToFront)
docmd.RunCommand acCmdFormView
Also, ZOrder is still not supported by Access 2016. As such, I have not yet learned a way to write a single line of code that puts a control in between two others, I just send the middle to back and then the back to back, and expand this to however many controls have to overlap.
And last, even though you use the VBA for ZOrder, your English does ambiguously sound like forms("form1").Controls("text0").TabIndex=34, which as Olek suggested, is also quite simple.
I did this on one Access form: The control I wanted on top I just cut and pasted it back to the form, then moved it over the one I wanted to cover. In this case, it was a text box (bound), almost the same size as a combo box (unbound); only the dropdown of the combo extended a bit to the right of the text box, so when the form was loaded the text box looked like a combo box. The user clicked the dropdown and made a choice and the record(s) pulled up were reflected in the text box.
In an auto-generated chart based on a query (I dragged the chart object onto a blank form to start it), the chart itself is displaying and updating properly, datawise, but I want to change the Legend from reading "SumOfAvgOfield1" and "SumOfAvgOfield2" to regular words suitable for final presentations. But I can't find a way to change it!
I realize this is a late answer, but I was just having a similar issue and figured someone else might benefit from knowing how to get rid of the 'SumOf' labels.
In design view, right click on the chart and select 'Properties'.
Choose the Data tab.
The 'Row Source' field is the one you're going to be interested.
In there you can see various places where it's labeling your data:
Sum() AS [SumOfData]
Just edit the text right in the properties window and you'll be set.
This is WAY late, but here's what I found (Yes we still use office 2007)
Open the form in PivotTable View. Open Property Sheet. Highlight the column you want to change the Legend Caption for. Choose the Captions Tab in the properties window. There you can change the captions for each column.
Had 4 charts on a form. 3 would let me edit the Heading of the Chart, the 4th would not. Read a lot of posts that did not pertain. Noticed the datasheet for the 4th chart was completely empty.
SOLUTION: Clicked on chart until the datasheet appeared. Added mock field headings and mock data to datasheet. I could then click on chart and edit the chart's Heading. You can also highlight and change the color of selected words in the chart's Heading. Very Nice!
Good luck,
Vancer
The SumofAverageOfFiled1, etc is automatically generated. Even if you edit it in the datasheet, it changes back (or at least that is my experience). What I did to get around this is add a Rectangle and fill it with white and size it to cover up the "Sumof" captions. You can Bring to Front the Rectangle. Then you can add text boxes to label the chart's bars to read the way you want them. Drag them over the Rectange and Bring to Front.
Hope this helps.
Everywhere I looked it said just change the Pivot Table to change the Legend Entry.
Well, let me tell you.
First, if you have no Pivot Table that you can see do the following:
go to design view and select the form
right click and hit Properties. Scroll through till you see AllowPivotTableView and select yes.
Now you can go and change the column headers!
This could help
Select xxxxx, yyyyy from zzzz
Chart0.ChartSeriesCollection(0).DisplayName = ![XXXXX]
Chart0.ChartSeriesCollection(1).DisplayName = ![YYYYY]
Was very difficult to me to find a way to do it.