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: […]
How to edit Value Lists in Access 2007. Access Archon #169 In Access versions through 2003, if you selected Value List as the row source type for a listbox or combo box, you had to type in the list values as a semicolon-separated list, which is a tedious chore for a list longer than three […]
How to delete duplicates from another table. Q: John Haynes writes: I am trying to set up a standard query to delete duplicates. The tables consist of customers from 2 different companies company I and company N. I need to delete the customers in company I when there is a record in company N. I […]
