Using Pop Up Forms

Pop-up forms stay on top of all the other forms and objects, regardless of which object is active. They're great for displaying additional information or for requesting data from the user. There are two kinds of pop-up forms: modeless and modal. The one major difference between the two--a modeless pop-up form allows you to access other objects, and a modal pop-up doesn't. You must respond to a modal pop-up form before Access will release the form and allow you to continue.

You create a pop-up form the same way you would create any other form, but set a modal form's Pop Up and Modal properties to Yes. When creating a modeless pop-up form, set the Pop Up property to Yes and the Modal property to No.

If you open a modal form using OpenForm, you must be sure to specify the acDialog constant in the form

DoCmd.OpenForm "formname", , , , ,acDialog

If you omit the acDialog constant, Access will ignore the Modal property setting. 

Access Index

Main Index