Can the load order of subforms be changed?

Question

I have a form with two subforms.  Subform A is a datasheet which has a Form_Current event which is suppose to call a subroutine in the main form, which in turn tries to change a control in Subform B.
However, on startup, Subform B has not loaded and an error occurs ("You entered an expression that has an invalid reference to the property Form/Report").
Is there a way that I can force Subform B to load before Subform A?
b.hata

Answer 1

Not that I know of. Trying to change this default behavior is a recipe for disaster.
You COULD have an error handler in that function that ignores the specific error because not there yet. Or you could re-think the whole thing and perhaps trigger it from the main form.
On rare occasion, and I am reluctant to even mention it, I would tick a 1 msec timer and upon Form_Timer do my thing. This event is pretty much guaranteed to happen AFTER everything is loaded and is settling down.
-Tom. Microsoft Access MVP
I have had situations in the past where things were working fine and then after some changes, I would get errors similar to my current database development problem.  Somehow the order of subform loading would change.  There must be something in
Access that determines the order in which subforms (and parent form) gets loaded.  I can't imagine it should matter to Access what the order would be.  I was hoping there was some way I could change it.
re: error handlers... I typically don't like to do much in error handlers.  I much prefer to prevent errors from happening in the first place, such as setting an "Initialization Flag" during Form_Open and testing it in "Form_Current".
re: timer... I wouldn't want to use Form_Timer as it is not full proof. 
b.hata