A handy solution to the problem of disappearing form view headers and footers. Q: Bob writes that in Access 2003, when he is working on a form in design view, and turns on form headers/footers (using the View Form Header/Footer menu command), often the header and/or footer section doesn’t show when he switches to form […]
How to set column heading text for datasheets. Q: Jane H. writes that she has started using a naming convention for form controls (Helen’s comment: definitely a good idea!), but now she is seeing the control names, with prefixes, as the column headings in datasheet subforms. Is there any way to remove the prefixes in […]
Access Archon #174 Introduction Many of my code samples write data from Access tables or queries to document properties in Word documents. For this technique to work, you have to add the appropriate doc properties to the Word template, which can be a time-consuming process. In this article I automate the process of creating […]
Adding and subtracting dates. Q: Martin writes: I have these records written in two lines (dates, without separation in the European style (1030)) 051007 051107 I then want to take the dates and subtract the dates from each other and get how much time has passed. An easy task with conform dates but this […]
How to stop Access auto-correcting your typing when you don’t want it to. Q: Maryann S. writes: “My application uses a number of two- or three-letter codes as field values. Sometimes, when I type one in, it changes to something else (for example, HGE changes to HE). How can I stop this? It is really […]
