I have a series of "on Change" Enabled/Disabled subroutines in the VBA for a form.
When scrolling through the form to view records however, only the main routine runs--the subroutines don't. As a result, questions appear disbaled that have responses displayed.
How do I get the subroutines to run when a record is viewed/changed?
The OnChange only fires when the relevant object is updated. If you want code to run whenever the record is scrolled, put it in the form's OnCurrent event.
I too have found Access form events to be a bit hard to work with/unpredictable. One thing that worked for me is to use a label or textbox and set the Control Source to a formula or a call to my own VBA function to get what I need done. Your control could also be invisible if it is not needed for the GUI. I doubt this is best practice but this "simulated" event worked for me.
If you need conditional presentation in a list, a continuous form and events are not going to do the job. In some cases CONDITIONAL FORMATTING will do the job, but only for appearance -- it can't do things like show/hide controls or alter the rowsource of dropdown lists or requery them.
Conceptually it would be impossible to do so. Form-level events fire for the record. Scrolling through the form does not move the record pointer.
I avoid using continuous forms for editing precisely because of this issue. Instead, I bind a detail subform to the PK value of the record selected in the continuous form, and then the detail form can do all the conditional formatting it needs to.