A great overview and comparison of Access, SQL Server, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. From time to time I get a message from a client asking whether they should upgrade from Access to SQL Server, usually after seeing some presentation or ad for SQL Server. Sometimes this is appropriate (say, when they anticipate storing […]
Q: Bradley Welland writes to ask if there is any information available on using ActiveX controls in Access. A: This continues to be a sore point, even in Office 2007. ActiveX controls (other than the few native ones) can’t be depended on to work the same in Access as in other hosts (such as VB), […]
How to prevent duplicate data entry in different records. Q: Nigel Heremaia wants to prevent users from entering the same data in the FirstName and LastName fields in different records. He is using this code, but it isn’t working: Private Sub Form_BeforeUpdate(Cancel As Integer) Dim FirstName Dim LastName Dim FullName FirstName = DLookup(“[FirstName]”, […]
How to insert a field in a Word document that calculates dates. Q: George Forsythe writes: “I want to insert a field in a Word document that calculates Tomorrow’s date. It would be even better if I could make it Next Weekday’s date. There seems to be no intuitively obvious way to do this.” A: […]
Q: Martin Wichmand writes: I’m trying to make some conditional formatting with VBA, using the following line of code to pop up a message box if the date in the control is today’s date or later: If IsDate(Me![cboOpfoelgning].Value) >= Dato() Then But I just get an error. A: The problem here is that the […]
