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access status bar show half height
Access 365. My status bar is half height. Record numbers etc. shows only half and are hard to read.
Happened a few years back, but don't remember what the fix is.
I'm a extremely low level Access user. But I've been using Word since it was on one 360 floppy. so Microsoft office has been my program forever. I updated from 2003 to 365. (May I say ...yuck?)
Here's a screenshot. Tried changing screen resolutions, font sizes, and have spent 2 hrs browsing for an answer.
Anyhow, hope someone can tell me the fix. I'll give an email as I might not remember to get back to this page. pdxaz714@gmail.com
thanks for any help
This issue also came up in the thread at another forum https://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/threads/office-365-record-selector-bar-is-partly-hidden.325930/.
Another forum member suggested the cause & I can now reliably replicate the issue (tested on 2 PCs) as well as describing the fix
The screenshot below shows my Access window with a form & 2 queries all showing part of the navigation bar hidden
Notice the huge size of the text in the Access menu, nav pane & status bar .... that's the cause
I had previously tested increasing the scaling in Windows settings but that doesn't cause the issue as all screen elements are scaled up by the same amount.
However changing Make Text Bigger in Windows settings by moving the slider to the right does cause the issuebecause the text size is increased but other design elements remain unchanged
To fix the problem, move the slider significantly to the left and click apply.
The default setting is at the extreme left (100%)
Close & re-open Access and all should now be fine
If you need text to be larger, then I suggest using the Make Everything Bigger scaling in Windows Settings instead e.g. 125% or 150% so everything increases in proportion.
Please can anyone affected by ths issue test the above & report back on whether it solves your issue
Thanks
- Did anybody ever come up with a solution for this? I have the same problem and it is extremely annoying.
- It looks to me like the Access Window itself might be less than fully expanded.
- I think its a display glitch and I have also seen it before.
As an 'experiment' try changing the display to overlapping windows. Close Access & reopen
If you prefer tabbed documents, change it back again afterwards. Close Access & reopen again.- I tried this several times without success. Thanks for the suggestion. Any other thoughts?
- Have you tried my suggestion about toggle display modes to/from tabbed documents and back again?
isladogs Yes I tried it and it doesn't change a thing. I would put up a screenshot but I looked at the other guy and his screenshot is exactly the same as mine. It appears that the Status bar at the bottom covers about 1/2 of the Navigation Bar inside a query or table window. Thanks for the suggestion. I am hoping someone can come up with an answer.
- Can you post a simple database which displays this effect. Remove anything not needed and any confidential data.
If you can do that, I can check whether the problem is part of the specific database itself or an Access issue
- Yes. It failed. Thanks though.
- Please can you post a sample database showing the effect as already requested
