I installed Access 2007 a few days ago on another office PC and get a curious behavior. When I use Build Events to open a single window, it opens every form's events in my application with the form's event window I selected on top. So there I am with about 40 open windows overlaying one another. At first I tried closing this pile up of windows one at a time which was annoying and very time consuming. Then I recalled that Alt/F4 closes all windows. Unfortunately Alt/F4 also closes all windows and exits Access. While Alt/F4 works better that closing 40 windows one at a time, it's annoying to restart Access every time I make a small change in an event.

I've tried reinstalling with no change. Actually I saw this same behavior on at another PC using Access 2007 a couple of years ago and never figured out what was going on then.

Is there a setting I need to change?

Anyone familiar with this curious and annoying behavior.

Thanks

Mike

Hello Mike, I think you should use CTRL-F4 to close the windows.
After successfully closing all windows, save your db, close and re-open your db.

Mike,
I think this is what has always happened (at least in my experience it is). The difference is that we normally open the IDE with the window maximized so we don't see all the other windows open behind it.

That's correct, at least back through version 2000. If you click to close the code module you'll be faced with the module for another form and another form's and so on, until all have been closed. As George said, the window normally opens up maximized so that you never notice this.

Linq ;0)>

I agree with GroverParkGeorge and missinglinq.