From the course: Access 2019: Macros
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Debug macros
- [Instructor] It's not very often you'll get a complex macro constructed exactly right on the first try. You're bound to get the occasional error and have to go back and investigate what the problem might be. In those cases, it'd be nice to slow the macro down and verify each step that it moves through to help isolate and identify any issues. I've gone ahead and added an additional action into the morning routine macro that we created previously in the course. Now, if I double-click on it to run it, we're going to get this error message that says, the command or action Zoom100% isn't available now. I'll press the OK button, and this Macro Single Step window opens up. It tells me that we have an error here in the run macro command action. The only option that we have is to stop all macros from running, and that leaves us halfway through the process with just the Orders table opened up. Let's go ahead and close this table down. In order to troubleshoot this macro, I'm going to open it…
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