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Access Navigation Pane too narrow
Access Navigation pane too narrow and cannot be fixed by any suggestions made here or elsewhere on the internet. Numerous phone and chat communications with Microsoft have been a huge waste of time....
To be fair, they're not faced with rather unusual problems like this often. As you can, no doubt tell from the discussion here, not even experts like Colin are able to really pin down an answer that easily.
This is also WIndows 11 we're talking about. Not enough history to have exposed all the hidden problems. As you state, it affects one of your computers, but not the other. It's probably down to some problem on that specific computer, with its specific configuration. Maybe even a monitor problem. Unless someone can replicate the problem, it can be quite challenging to even know where to begin.
I'm not excusing MS here, just trying to point out the situation we're in as objectively as possible.
As a matter of fact, one thing you could try is to upload the accdb in question. Perhaps someone can then dig into it in some depth.
This is also WIndows 11 we're talking about. Not enough history to have exposed all the hidden problems. As you state, it affects one of your computers, but not the other. It's probably down to some problem on that specific computer, with its specific configuration. Maybe even a monitor problem. Unless someone can replicate the problem, it can be quite challenging to even know where to begin.
I'm not excusing MS here, just trying to point out the situation we're in as objectively as possible.
As a matter of fact, one thing you could try is to upload the accdb in question. Perhaps someone can then dig into it in some depth.
Uploading the database was also going to be my next suggestion. I've never yet seen a database where this issue couldn't be fixed
BTW if you do any further screenshots, please uset he Windows Snipping Tool or the PtrScn key to capture the screen. Crop the image as necessary. This will give a much clearer image than what you re dong now (taking a photo with your phone). Thanks in advance
BTW if you do any further screenshots, please uset he Windows Snipping Tool or the PtrScn key to capture the screen. Crop the image as necessary. This will give a much clearer image than what you re dong now (taking a photo with your phone). Thanks in advance
Got back home and the db works fine on my tower PC. Something is wrong with my laptop configuration. Spent enough time. Now on back burner.
Thank you very much for all your efforts and I want to thank everyone else who contributed. Except for MS Tech Support /;-(
- Thanks.
I opened the ACCDB file and the nav pane is the normal width without me doing anything.
I can send the test file back to you but I'm not sure that will help.
Did you try my Nav Pane Helper add-in? See link in my earlier post Compressed file containing the test accdb and the two jpeg images which had been posted previously. They all had similar names which may have been confusing.
- There is a problem with both your images. The message seems to indicate you've created JPEG images of your screen but saved them with an ACCDB suffix which isn't going to work
Please zip & attach the test database itself- not images of it OK, Created an accdb on my troublesome laptop with only a phony table. However, I got this helpful message from MS who helpfully would not let me post my accdb. What are those guys smoking over there....
