How to suppress the “OpenForm action was canceled” message. Q: Nick Els finds that when he runs a report from a form, even though he has a message on the report’s NoData event, he still gets an annoying error message stating that the OpenForm action was canceled, and he wants to know how to suppress […]
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 […]
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How to enable Macros in Office 2007. Q: Marge W. writes that a client called her in panic, saying that “nothing works” in the updated database she just delivered. Upon questioning, it turned out that nothing happened when buttons were clicked on the main menu, and that the client had just done a fresh install […]
How to sort reports by date in Access. Access Archon #163 Introduction If you have a report with a date field, you may need to sort the report by date, and Access has a built-in feature that lets you do date sorting very easily, without preparing a query in advance, or writing code. This article […]