How to fix the Runtime Code 8500 A form with a subform object can't have its DefaultView property set to Continuous Forms

About Runtime Code 8500

Runtime Code 8500 happens when Microsoft Access fails or crashes whilst it's running, hence its name. It doesn't necessarily mean that the code was corrupt in some way, but just that it did not work during its run-time. This kind of error will appear as an annoying notification on your screen unless handled and corrected. Here are symptoms, causes and ways to troubleshoot the problem.

Definitions (Beta)

Here we list some definitions for the words contained in your error, in an attempt to help you understand your problem. This is a work in progress, so sometimes we might define the word incorrectly, so feel free to skip this section!

• Access - DO NOT USE this tag for Microsoft Access, use [ms-access] instead
• Add - Addition is a mathematical operation that represents combining collections of objects together into a larger collection
• Continuous - A random variable X is called continuous if its set of possible values is uncountable, and the chance that it takes any particular value is zero PX=x=0 for every real number x
• Design - Design in programming is the act of making particular choices about how best to structure a program, to achieve goals of reliability, maintainability, correctness or ease of use.
• Design view - A view in a RAD Rapid Application Development tool that allows you to design what the user sees.
• Forms - A form is essentially a container that can be used to hold any amount of any subset of several types of data
• Object - An object is any entity that can be manipulated by commands in a programming language
• Reset - Resetting something restores it to a default position or value, or to a previous position or value
• Set - A set is a collection in which no element is repeated, which may be able to enumerate its elements according to an ordering criterion an "ordered set" or retain no order an "unordered set".
• Subform - Use this tag for questions related to a Subform, which is part of a bigger form.
• View - This tag is for questions about database view or UI architectural view
• Access - Microsoft Access, also known as Microsoft Office Access, is a database management system from Microsoft that commonly combines the relational Microsoft JetACE Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools
• Property - A property, in some object-oriented programming languages, is a special sort of class member, intermediate between a field or data member and a method
• Microsoft office - Microsoft Office is a proprietary collection of desktop applications intended to be used by knowledge workers for Windows and Macintosh computers