Microsoft KB Archive/160872

= ACC: Clicking Print Preview While Previewing Closes the Object =

Article ID: 160872

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 1.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 1.1 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q160872



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



SYMPTOMS
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.



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.

