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Change Form View

How do i change the view of a form in vba?
i want to change the view of the form to single form when a button is clicked.

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DMurray

Easy peasy

do this

doCmd.close acForm "name of form"
DoCmd.openForm "NameofForm", acDatasheet (or whatever the view is that you want)

DMurray
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its a subform :P
Try:

DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSubformFormView

or

DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdFormView

perkc
they both just do nothing :P
Do you think you could go into a bit more depth? of what what the name of the forms are (the name of the subform, the name of its parent form ) Might be ab it easier to help you with your problem..

DMurray
yup no problem!

The main form is called

MenuMain_F

the subform control is called MenuSubForm

and the subform form is called

MenuMainClassList_F
And youw ant to change it from Form Normal view to datasheet view at a touch of a butotn?
OK, sorry but the following will switch views on the subform every time you press the button.

Me!SUBFORMNAME.SetFocus
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSubformDatasheet

perkc
what is the acCmd for Contionus form and single form?
you see i have a form, on that form is a subform.
the subform is normaly in Cont Form View.
but on the press of a button must chane to Single Form
when another button is pressed it must change back to Cont Form View
Sorry but I havn't had any luck finding a method to switch between continuous and single form view without closing the form.

perkc
yeah i am having the same trouble. and when i use echo it still shows the from closing and opening :(
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the thing with doing it that way (the way it currently does) is that if i change one form then i have either recreate the other one or make the changes to both forms and its wasting a lot of time, as well as there being 10 or so forms that change view
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