page controls disappear when set multipage visible property to false

**bdoodle** · 07-15-2011, 02:37 PM

I just spent about an hour adding a userform to my application. I added a multipage control onto it and created several pages/tabs. I then entered several labels, text boxes, and check boxes to the first page.
I realize I should have used the tabstyle property on the multipage to make the tabs not show, but instead I mistakenly set the visible property there to false. All the controls I just added to the first page disappeared and don't reappear when I reset the property to true.
Can anyone help? I'd hate to have to start over. I never said to delete anything! I only set a property to false! Are these controls really gone?!
Thanks for any help you can provide.

**bdoodle** · 07-15-2011, 04:22 PM

Even I couldn't replicate this problem. However, now when I re-enter the controls that disappeared (somehow!!), I get an ambiguous name error when I specify a (Name) that I used on the same control that disappeared. It's a very unusual name and I know I haven't used it elsewhere. Is there something I can do to find out where it thinks this duplicate name is? I had this same ambiguous name problem with lost controls on another thread. It was resolved when an automatic Windows update caused my computer to restart. When I reopened the file, everything was fine. It no longer said the names I was trying to enter were ambiguous. What gives???!!!.
I'm really going nuts with this!

**bdoodle** · 07-16-2011, 12:17 AM

Sorry to waste your time. I found that I had placed the controls on the wrong page. They did not disappear.
I find it so easy to screw myself up! Again, sorry!