ACC: Clicking Print Preview While Previewing Closes the Object

 Last reviewed: May 30, 1997
Article ID: Q160872
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Access versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 7.0, 97

SYMPTOMS

Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.

If you print preview an object in the Database window, and then you click Print Preview on the File menu, the object closes.

CAUSE

In Microsoft Access, the Print Preview mode is toggled either on or off. When you print preview an object in Microsoft Access 7.0 or earlier, the Print Preview command on the File menu has a check mark or a bullet next to it; in Microsoft Access 97, the button next to the Print Preview command on the File menu is pushed in. If you click Print Preview when it has a check mark, a bullet, or a pushed in button next to it, you are issuing a command to turn Print Preview off. Consequently, the object you are previewing closes.

NOTE: If you open a form, report, macro, or module in Design view, and then you print preview the object, when you click Print Preview on the File menu the object returns to Design view. It does not close.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Open the sample database Northwind.mdb (or NWIND.MDB in versions 1.x and 2.0).

  2. Click the Reports tab in the Database window.

  3. Select the Catalog report, and then click Print Preview on the File menu.

  4. Click Print Preview on the File menu again, and note that the report closes.

REFERENCES

For more information about Print Preview, search the Help Index for "Print Preview."

Keywords : kbusage PtrOthr
Version : 1.0 1.1 2.0 7.0 97
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : X86
Issue type : kbprb
Resolution Type : Info_Provided

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Last reviewed: May 30, 1997
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