Recent content by corpuschristi

Thank you, Nigel and Swill for your replies. I'm still pretty shocked, but i managed to solve this one. Seems it was all down to regional and language settings. They did not match between my desktop and laptop. Once i fixed it, it works perfectly! Thanks goes to "Spy" from Utter Access forums...

It goes like this. ANY database i try to run on my laptop, gives the following error, whenever a form/controller attempts to call a subroutine, or whatever other actions involving VBA code: "A problem occurred while Microsoft Access was communicating with the OLE server or ActiveX control"...

Thanks, LPurvis, for replying. I tried using the code segment you added within the form's On Open event, but it doesn't work. No error, nothing happens. There must be something i'm doing wrong. What does "ctl" stand for? Is it a variable i need to declare? And ctl.tag, is it the text string of...

First timer here, so, naturally, feeling you may find my question trivial, as my familiarity with vb programing is poor, but please bear with me. And please excuse my English. I'm building a form, containing hundreds of labels. Now, i want to create a function that changes the background color...