Why is this happening..?

[Nightowl4933]

So, after a load of work and help from this forum, I've finally got to the test release stage of my database, but something wierd is happening to the formatting of a form when I move the database to my work laptop.

Each form was designed on the same template, with the same colours and fonts, etc., but one form (and only that form) changes stuff

The FormHeader background bar changes to blue from white, the font of the title label in the Form Header changes to Times New Roman from Calibri, several (but not all) text boxes, their labels and fonts go grey in the Detail of the form, and all Command Button text changes to black in the FormFooter. I assume these controls are reverting to 'default', but why on this form and not the others?

I am writing the db in Access 2007 on Windows 10 through Parallels on my iMac and running it in Access 2010 on Windows 7, but that doesn't seem to affect anything else.

I will copy it back to my iMac to see if the changes 'reverse', but when I close the form after viewing it in design mode, it doesn't prompt to save the changes.

Hopefully, nothing more subtle is happening elsewhere, i.e. with queries or code!

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Nightowl4933]

Nope. Shows as it was designed to do when I copy it back.

D'oh :banghead:

Pete

 

[Galaxiom]

Many of the default colour formatting settings refer to Windows System colours which can be changed by the user. Maybe that form still has the system colours and the Win 7 system has had them changed from default.

 

[Nightowl4933]

Hi Galaxiom,

I looked at that and changed all the controls last time I copied it over, but that was a bit of a pain - but it worked.

The settings on my iMac for the Back Color of the FormHeader, for example, is '#FFFFFF' when the db is open on my iMac, but 'Text 2, Lighter 80%' on my laptop. I can change it to '#FFFFFF' and it stays at that when I save the form.

 

[Nightowl4933]

Further update...

When I changed the formatting on my work laptop and sent it back to my iMac, the formatting was correct. When I sent it back to my work laptop, everything was OK except the front color on one of the command buttons.

Funnily enough, when I looked at the form with the command button in design mode, the font color is blue; in normal view, it's black.

This is weird, but I guess just an anomaly!