UPDATE: I now know that visible = false will automactically change the
properties to visible = true after I have opened the form in design view when
the control is visible.
Does anyone know how I can stop this from happening?

"Julie Aldridge" wrote:

I have a form with a couple of subforms. The textboxes on the subforms are
set to visible = false.

Sometimes when I close the database and re-open, the subform textbox
properties have been re-set back to visible = true.

This problem is very intermittent. Are there any conditions that would
automatically change the properties.