There is a weird problem with an Access2003 database I am using.
When you first open a form with radio buttons the first button is
preselected, and you can't change the selection by clicking another button
directly, only by cycling through the buttons with the cursor keys.

Googling around I have found a couple of reports of radio buttons that
couldn't be selected at all, but the queries were never finally resolved,
although suggestions were made that the form's control source might be
bound to a non-updatable table or query.

IIRC the database in question was converted from Access97 (which did not
exhibit this bug) so I wonder if the way radio buttons are defined changed
between editions? It would be nice to fix this bug as having to cycle
through several buttons until you reach the option you want is kind of a
pain.

GS <nomail (AT) nospam (DOT) org.invalid> wrote:

Just to answer my own question, the answer turned out to be blindingly
simple - the buttons couldn't be pressed directly because the
(invisible) option group object was not physically in the foreground!
Selecting the group (since I couldn't click it directly I had to do this
via the field list in the properties dialogue) and choosing "bring to
front" solved the problem. Weird.