Access Archon #174 The code that does the work of listing, clearing and copying doc properties is listed below. VBA Code Private Sub cmdCopy_Click() On Error GoTo ErrorHandler Dim cbo As Access.ComboBox Dim intType As Integer Set cbo = Me![cboSelectTableOrQuery] strTemplate = Nz(Me![txtTemplate].Value) strRecordSource = Nz(cbo.Column(0)) […]
A look at a few of the embarrassing glitches in Word 2003’s in-built dictionary function. How do you spell ‘Barack Obama’? Maybe it’s ‘Barrack Osama’ ? Word 2003, Vista or Windows Server 2008 might tell you that. click here for more … See Also Why is an eighth grader smarter than Microsoft Word? Spell-checker pulps […]
Using the Office Envelope Object in Office 2000 – what works and what doesn’t. Some readers have asked whether the Office Envelope Object (featured in Access Archon #122) can be used in Office 2000. Well, sort of. While writing the article, I tested the two procedures in Office 2000 and found that the Word procedure […]
How to successfully merge data from Access to Word. Q: Bruce Michael writes: “I have been attempting to do a merge in Word 2003 using an Access 2003 query. When I look in the query, the data is correct, but when I actually merge using the data, for one column in the database, the values […]
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 […]