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The UK has a dismal record of implementing large IT projects (and other public projects) for the government. Really and truly, almost all of them get discarded after many hundreds of millions of pounds spent. The real horror is that the preceding systems are generally ditched in the process...

Hi Burt, Welcome to the site. Some very helpful people here. I'm stil pretty green and went through the same thing as you a while back (not tha tlong ago). I'm happy to say that I got exactly what I wanted (with a little tooth pulling form the gurus on the site :D ). Check out these 2 threads...

When you have all the responsability for something but none of the authority to make it happen, and others are either disinterested or obstructive you can tell people that : "I feel like a one legged man in an arse kicking contest" I'm sure many of the professionals on this site who's work is...

In a similar vein: Lang may yer lum reek. Possibly Robbie Burns. Lum is an old work for chimney and reek is a lowland Scottish work for smoke. A reekin' lum meant that you had fuel to keep warm.

Other one liners that really made me laugh the first time I heard them, but not always when they were familiar:) 'Being in love means never having to say you are sorry' (Love Story 1970 something) used in the context of normal office interactions between colleagues who aren't in a romantic...

"Source Code" I thought there was more than one Parkinson's Law but the Google search only turned up the original version that Matt and I posted later versions of: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Parkinson's Law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its...

Hi Folks, I have read a number of threads on this subject and am now a little confused. My form has a combo box that uses a Select Case to apply 1 of 5 filters to the form and I have a formatted report that is essentially based on the same query as the form. Here is the bit that has me...

General advice is to create your db for the lowest resolution of your users. i.e. set your resolution at the lowest resolution likely to be used and everyone will be able to use it ok. There is a thread somewhere with a zoom feature to magnify forms for high resolution users but I haven't tried...

Don't forget the soda! Nice joke bwrobel. gave me a laugh. :D

Describing somebody who is simultaneously flashy, seedy and cheep (think Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch): 'Done up like a pox doctors clerk' 'Like a rat with a gold tooth' Describing somebody who has just got way too excited about something: 'Like a dog with 2 dicks' Some contractor's...

I think that is a crib from Shakespeare's 'Life is too short to drink small beer'. Small beer being a watered down Elizabethan 'lite' beer used for drinking when inebriation wasn't the object. That is, when water was always suspect, beer was safe to drink so they had a week beer for drinking...

John, Thanks for that. I'm embarrassed to say that I have actually posted on that thread in April and had downloaded the sample db. :o I didn't actually understand it at the time and intended to look at it later but didn't find it when I did the search the other day. Anyway, thanks again...

Mike, Thanks for the code. I will try this tomorrow. ghudson, My application is in a relatively low risk contained office environment with distributed front ends and a common back end. If users trash their front end, I can get them to clear the version number which forces a re-load from the...

Whew, I'm glad I said 'most' printers can't print up to the edge or I'd be back in 'oops!' mode. :) grnzbra, I'm a bit curious. Databases are normally more concerned with the data than the graphics, although formatting of reports is important. It may be that what you want to do would be...

Hi grnzbra, Most printers will not print right up to the edge of the paper, they have an 'unprintable area'. To do what you want, I would think that you need to print your report oversize on a larger sheet of paper (A3 say) and crop to size (A4). Tedious to say the least :D If you are...

.... ashtray on a motorbike. Having said that, I remember a strange friend from my youth who would indeed smoke cigarettes while riding on his motorbike.

Hi John, I think you mixed up your links as both jump to the same thread. I chased around in circles a bit trying to track down the link with no success. Could you post the second link again? Many thanks.

4000+ views and no answers! Hi Folks, A bit of a bump on this one: I have exactly the same question that Dixie posted a couple of years ago that hasn't been answered: Is there a way to enable the mouse right click menu when all the toolbars have been disabled using the code ghudson supplied...

Sean, Maybe you should offer your services to Deloite & Touche? It sounds like there is some fat in the gap between $48k & $67m to pay you a bit more that the government do. :D Kudos to all those souls on the forum who assisted you.

Rich, If I remeber my bible correctly, the Land of Nod is located to the east of Eden and is where Cain went to lie low after doing the dirty deed on Able. I thought it would have developed more since then :D Is it a nice place now?