[AccessD] Access 2003 can't cut and paste a control

I actually tried that, in fact I created a brand new Access container, then copied the two forms 
from the old container.  In my experience that copy out of the old container mostly fails if there 
is any weirdness in the old form.

Anyway, that one combo just did not copy, ever, whether copied and pasted onto the new form or 
pasted back into the original form.  In fact I moved that control in the original form using the 
arrow key and then did a Ctl-Z (undo) to try and move it back to its original location and it page 
faulted (Access is closing).

Really really strange.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 8/14/2012 8:49 PM, Darryl Collins wrote:
> Hi John
>
> I have seen this behaviour when you try to paste a control whose name already exists on the target form with a different control.  Access is meant to handle that, but in my experience it often doesn't handle it at all and leads to form corruption and crashing.  It seems to behave better if you are using the default control names provided by Access, but if you are usign custom names it is rather flakey at best.
>
> These days I take a long winded route. Copy the control to a dummy form, rename it there and then repaste it back onto the original form to avoid any name duplicates.
>
> A bit of a pain and an extra step, but far less of a pain (and many less steps) then having the whole form go 'splat' as was often the case.
>
> May or may not be relevant to you situation, but it seemed like it could be a contender...
>
> cheers
> Darryl.