Recent content by gledav

Thanks Pat. I suspected I was over thinking it. It is very simple indeed and I'm embarrassed to admit I had not thought of it. Kind regards.

Hi azhar2006, Thanks for your reply. I guess you mean a physical barcode reader attached to a computer port? What I really need to be able to do is have a unique identifying feature, such as a barcode, printed on the reports I send to the teachers to complete. Remember these reports have...

Thanks everyone. I appreciate all the advice and it gives me some hope that what I want to do is achievable. Now I know that, I'll explore the different methods that seem to be available and see which one is the best to implement.

Hi Pat, Thanks for your reply. I do have the information. I have all the data required to personalise reports such as StudentID, parent email address etc. Any or all of this information can be and is placed on the individualised report templates I send to the teachers for completion. What I...

Thanks Gasman, Perhaps I wasn't altogether clear. My question is really about how does Access 'see' the email field or StudentID field in the returned PDFs or Word Docs.

We are a music school and we send student report templates to our teachers for completion each year. They are Access reports generated from a query, converted into PDFs or Word Docs and emailed to them. When the completed PDFs or Docs are returned to us we print them out and post them to...

Thanks Galaxiom.

Hi There. I'm trying to put a little app together that allows me to synchronise a combo box with a list box. I want to make a selection from the combo box and have only data related to it appear in the list box. I can get it to work when the primary and foreign keys are both numbers in a...