Access debugging question

Question

Hi,

I am having some trouble with my debugging mode in Access.  I used to be able to debug fine (setting break points, stepping through code, etc.), but now when I do that I can never seem to recover to a normal state.  Even if I successfully step all the way through some code on a form, my form never regains focus.  Instead the debugger dumps me out of whatever piece of code I am testing into some weird state where the form that I am working on, and which was previously in Form View mode, is now in some kind of quazi-design view mode.  I can't even seem to access it.  If I click on the form, I just get a beep.  Also, the database window has been brought to the front, so that my form is behind it.

Particularly puzzling because, as I said, I think just a few weeks ago it was working fine.  Maybe I unknowingly tweaked a debugging setting somewhere?

Any insights/suggestions?

Thanks!

Emily

Answer 1

I have.  In fact, usually once I've stepped through whatever particular part of the code I'm interested in investigating, I just hit F5 to continue through the code.  But thanks again!

Answer 2

When you are done with stepping through the code, try hitting F5.

Answer 3

I just verified that "break on unhandled errors" is in fact the selection there.

Although, just to make sure I'm making this clear, in some of these pieces of code I am 100 percent sure that there are no errors.

Answer 4

Maybe go to the VBA Window, to TOOLS > OPTIONS and in the GENERAL tab make sure that BREAK ON UNHANDLED ERRORS is the one selected.