Recent content by Blue Karma

Yes, we need the display to be uniform so people can distinguish between day and year. We started out with one structure, dd-mmm-yy, with several records entered in this format, and now as new records are entered they are displaying yy-mmm-dd. How are users to tell the difference if it's not...

On my form day/month/year has switched to year/month/day. On a table there are three separate date cells. Order Date, Shipping Date, and Report Date. They are each formated to medium style. At first I also used an input mask then I found that Access would convert to the format I choose. I had...

I can create a customized Input Mask, however there are two possible structures that the data may take. I think that this should be doable by the use of two fields, if it can be done with one field it would be preferable for searching options. If I have to use two fields there would only be one...

Crisis diverted, I found the unhide button. I still need help properly sizing the form on opening, using excel I have sucessfully avoided having to use macros, I suppose that will no longer be the case. I prefer simple solutions if possible, all suggestions will be welcomed.

I'm new to database development, we are just considering migrating to Access from Excel. I was able to get the form I built to open on startup for people who will be entering data. I wanted the users to see only the form. When I followed the instructions given by truck time then closed the file...