Recent content by longbreak

Thanks for your effort anyway. I can write it off as lost in space.

Thanks for your help Uncle Gizmo. I thought of doing that myself but don't know how.

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this request. Back on 3oth Nov 2012 I posted a sample database titled "Vehicle Maintenance". In the meantime my computer was gutted and I had to do a complete rebuild including mother board and drives. In the process I lost all my access files and...

The inspiration for this program comes from a program called Automotive Wolf which uses some access tables but then uses crystal reports which I thought was overkill. Another overkill was that it attempted to cover almost every make and version of vehicle in the entire world except my vehicle...

Just to set the record straight the problem was myself. The only way to code this process is by using Form On Load and it works. So can I delete this conversation to hide my embarassment?

Just made it back and had another look at this. First I had Access 2010 do a repair job but that did no good. I see that there are some problems experienced by some users where VBA does not link with access either on security issues or old versions of access conflicting but these were not...

OK many thanks for that. The only reason I also included it in the Form update was in frustation to see if I could get it to work anywhere. I only put a declaration and a msgbox in there to see if a msgbox would work, so whether it worked or not there should be two msgbox events. This tells me...

I think I misunderstood you before John. When you said the code works fine I thought you ran it on a separate test db. After I uploaded the TextBoxTest.accb I thought the upload didn't work as it should have been zipped but now I see it did. Can you confirm you ran that file and it worked...

Thanks for the confirmtion. So there must be something else causing vba not to talk to the form. I should look at some mystery settings in access which are causing this. In the meantime I found a sample mdb which might have similar actions which I can check. It is dbSearchExample which I found...

Hello, I have been using access 2010 for a few weeks now and thought I was ready to try first project which was to be a db for servicing a vehicle with service details, mileage, due dates etc. However I ran into my first problem from scratch. I put a textbox in the header of a form and was...