Recent content by rickober

Thanks for confirming what I suspected. I guess it was a good idea while it lasted (there are other ways to disable tools which I have used many times and it's too bad they give you the illusion that something MIGHT work only to find out that it never will.) Leave it to Microsoft to add more and...

Is there no way to enable it in Form View without changing to Design View? That is VERY handy and I miss it. It was so handy (along with a million other things) that I have stayed in Access 2000 as long as possible for that and many other reasons. Thanks

How does one enable the right click Property on form fields, buttons, etc to work? In every instance of Access I have seen, it is always grayed out. It is VERY handy to be able to open the properties while the form is still open.

Thanks again for your eyeballs and ideas! The ribbon is visible and everything is grayed out, ie disabled (or whatever it is called but I am pretty sure it is "disabled"). If it were merely making it invisible, it would be simple to get it back and those pages you suggested do that but there...

Thanks for the question. The computer I am working with is brand new with 2013 on it and Windows 7. I "upgraded" the mdb file to an accdb format and I get the same results. I really want to keep it in a 00 format since working in that environment is so much easier. Other than this snag...

I have a button that prepares a pdf report and sends it to an email address. This has worked great for years in every version of Access Except 2013. and it works there too but it has a strange quirk: it disables the ribbon. The ribbon is visible but everything is greyed out. If I...

Thanks for the tips on putting code up. There are links in there for the CDO which is why it was rejected. I have no idea at what point the menu is being disabled although I have been able to isolate that it has nothing to do with the print part of the procedure. I am trying to get it to run...

I have an mdb file that is being used in Access 2013. The menu appears in the Add Ins as it is supposed to and it works for the most part. For some reason, it remains visible but is not clickable/operable after I do the following code. This all works flawlessly in earlier version of Access so it...

Good idea! This is the type of data (an actual credit card scan-modified) that comes from a credit card reader: %B5466474000831111^xxxxx/xxxxx ^13011012000000955000000?;5466474000831111=130110120000955? so the "%" character would be the trigger. The Key Down event, however, looks at all the...

I have a related issue: I have a form that collects credit card info from a swiper. THere is an unbound text box that will collect the data which will then be parsed and sent to the credit card processor directly from the form (This is VERY elegant so if anybody needs to know how to do this...