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Surf_gecko, i suspect you are looking for the IsDate() function... ____________________________________________ Dim strInput As String Dim dtmInputDate As Date strInput = InputBox("Enter a value") If IsDate(strInput) = True Then     '-- do something with date...     '-- convert string date...

wizcow, It is easy to get Label controls to do what you want. Set the BackStyle property of your labels to 'Tansparent' and they will pick up the underlying background colour of the form (which by default uses the Windows System defined background colour). So far so good, some other controls...

ngoforth, Actually, the standard Textbox control in access already provides the functionality you need. Set the InputMask property for your password box to the value 'Password'. The textbox will then display * characters instead of the actual password being entered. As to how to pick up the...

socko139, in actual fact, excel's standard text boxes have a built-in masking feature, that is not activated by default. if you look at the property list for the textbox you will find one named "PasswordChar". enter the masking character of your choice into this property ('*' for example) and...

ian_ok, perhaps you mean: ... Then Me.End.Enabled = True if you don't add the '= True', the property value will not be changed. Hope that helps, axa

aqif, The RowSource and RowSourceType properties can be set through code to allow the listbox to show data from a pre-defined table or query, or your own sql statment For an existing table or query: RowSourceType = "Table/Query" RowSource = "YourTableOrQueryName" For your custom sql...

Dachande11, Make sure that the command46_click() procedure in the main form is declared as Public: Public Sub Command46_Click() ... End Sub Once that is done, you will be able to call the procedure from another form etc... [forms]![product].command46_click() or...

johnnyw, First of all, i must say that i tend to avoid using Charts in Access Reports like the plague that they are... so i cannot help you with the details of using them. however, a long while back a friend asked me a similar question when she wanted to export a chart from an access report...

northy, unfortunatly it is not possible to reference a vb variable directly from a query. however there is a simple work-around... you can reference user-defined functions from inside a query, so you could create a function to act as a wrapper for the variable you wish to use in your query...

darrin, have a look at the reply i posted for the following posting, the code i posted will give you what you need. http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001946.html Hope that helps axa

jatfill, one workaround for this is as follows. a custom Menu Button's OnAction property can contain a call to a macro (as you know), and it can also call a Public Function that you may have defined in a vba module like so: =MyMenuFunction() and you can design your function(s) to accept...

Purdue22, you could use the AfterUpdate event of the DateReceived text box. AfterUpdate is triggered once the contents of the textbox have been altered... Private Sub Date_Received_AfterUpdate()     '-- code here to update priority date... End Sub Hope that helps axa [This message has been...

Mike, each test in the If statment needs to be a seprate expression, like so... If FunctionName() = "ClarkL" Or FunctionName() = "SmithM" Or FunctionName() = "ThomasS" Then     Me.cmdEdit.Visible = True End If however, you can also use a Select Case statment to achive the same effect to do a...

hi catt, when it comes to understanding common naming convetions used in access vba, the following link may help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnaccgen/html/msdn_20naming.asp the article above gives a good guide to common naming practices used in the access vba world and vb in...

bayman the following code certainly works on win98/NT - don't use Win2K at the moment, but it should work ok. the following code uses Win32 API. I have given a function for getting the UserName, and also a function for getting the Computer Name, as i find it is often usefull to have both peices...