Recent content by iahclarke

Spot on - MS Word Utilities wasn't checked. It is now and its all working. That's actually fixed pretty much the whole thing! DJKarl you have been great! I really appreciate all the help and spoon feeding! Last question, since you've been so helpful already! I'm trying to convert a DAO...

Haha you know what I didn't even think about that. Ok good idea - sorted. Now I'm getting compile error 'user defined type not defined' on the line: Dim Applic As Word.Application ...

Thanks very much DJkarl! Much appreciated. However this new error still won't go away. Maybe some similarly brilliant words of wisdom anyone?

Problems Updating fields: Please help! I have a problem and its giving me a serious headache! Maybe you guys could help me? I've got a blank form which you can fill out progressively. Firstly, when you add a new record, a popup appears asking you to fill in a company name and subsidiary. When...

Thanks a lot for your help! That line you added was what I was missing - great! Is there anyway to set the document as read-only? Or open adobe pdf's instead? I assume you just change "word.application" to "adobe.application" or something? The combo box thing was going to be my next question...

Hi all, Sorry but I'm really new to Access and trying to make sense of all the useful advice on here! I'm trying to programme a button in one of my forms to open up a word document as read-only. I've written the code to open up the Word application (before I found the button which did it for...