How to use Access custom database properties to store information in a database, out of sight, but available to your code as needed. Access Archon #152 Introduction Sometimes you may need to store bits of information in a database, out of sight, but available to your code as needed. This article tells you how […]
How to change the sorting order of a report. Q: Steve Rudder writes: “I have an Access report that the user would like to be able to change the sorting order. For example, some of the columns they’d like to sort on in the report are Start Date, End Date and a tracking number. Can […]
A reader has provided this helpful code that allow user’s to add multiple attachments. In response to my article on faxing with DDE in AW 5.12-5.14, Tim contributed some code for adding multiple attachments: ‘Add attachments Set rstAttachments = _ db.OpenRecordset(“Select * from tblBulkEMailMessageAttachments”) If rstAttachments.RecordCount > 0 Then With rstAttachments .MoveLast .MoveFirst Do Until […]
These are some different settings user’s can use to yield the week number in the format they want. Q: Terry Smith writes that the expressionFormat(Now(),”ww”) Which used to yield the correct week number, no longer does so (in early 2005). A: This is not a bug, but a result of the Format function using default […]
How to turn off the make-table query warning message. Q: Steve Mason wants to know how to turn off the warning message saying “X table will be deleted” before the query runs. A: Open the Options dialog (Tools|Options) and click the Edit/Find tab. In the Confirm section there are three checkboxes that control whether […]