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The problem with privatization is the same as with outsourcing. You are eating your seed corn for short term gain. Privatization for resources which are required for the function of government seem to me to be something that should never be outsourced -eg, armed forces (especially pay)...

Just don't plug in your ethernet cable - not all of us use Wi-fi to connect!

No I didn't! And don't get me started on the explosion of knife crime!

Just remember 'Gun Controls' a strange beast - in the UK which has some of the most stringent gun laws in the world the incidence of gun related crime has gone through the roof since all guns were banned!

Agreed but version 8.1 worked well. The worst version was Windows Millennium!

I will continue to use older versions of windows - the only reason I upgraded to Win 10 was I couldn't find a replacement copy of 8.1 to mount on my PC when I had to have a new hard drive. I now keep a clone of my SSD, updating it monthly or when I mount a new applicatio (seldom). For me the...

Given that my laptop is still running Windows 7 and Office 2003 there is normally no need to upgrade just because MS tells you to! It actually smacks of MS realising that they actually could make Win 11 run on earlier hardware, when a boss invited the programmers to an 'interview without...

When you come down to it there is just nothing to compete with Access for the jobs it does. Last week for instance I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and now have to keep a record of pressure readings 4 times a day. Within two hours I had an Access database up and running to do the job...

Ah the good old days again. Access 1.0 cost me just £19 (which seemed quite a lot then even though it was a special offer) and 1.1 was a free upgrade. Then I got given a 3 free copies of Ver 2.0 at the UK launch at the US Embassy in London.

Interesting as the descriptions of mice are I'm just as interested in keyboards. I actually use a German QWERTZ keyboard though I seldom type much in German these days. What I like is the flexibility of easy access to various accents in most European languages, especially it is much better for...

My house is worth -(minus)£36,000! That's what it cost me to 'down-size' from a four bedroom houe in Newark to three bed in Norwich! Which all goes to show that house value is purely subjective.

My mouse is Logitech which I had for a couple (exact number not known) of years before I retired 2008. And still going strong! The thread reminded me of the arguments over serial or PS2 mice and cleaning the ball on mechanical mice before laser mice.

I agree with getting both for testing. My choice is CSV because with Access import specs you have a good chance of getting the data the way you want it. HOWEVER (and it's a big however) find out how the CSV files are generated. If they are being generated in Excel adds are you are getting...

I know this post may seem a little dismissive or rude but it's not meant to be so please don't be offended. There are ideas above which will help solve your problem in the short term, but the nub of the problem depends on having a decent data structure to start with as suggested by the The Doc...

Has anyone who has provided the solutions which I am about to use (thanks) used the code to also apply formatting as well as the colours? eg, underlines and italics etc which I use when pre-applying CFs at design stage. I'll obviously find out when I try it but was just interested. *** IGNORE...

As an aside one wonders if the three limit is the bug, or the redesign of the conditional formatting dialog to allow more than three to be defined?

The answer is no it doesn't mean that BUT you'll need some way of preventing them selecting more than three conditions. I generally only pre-set CFs and as (by choice) my ribbons are hidden to users so I'd need some way of invoking a method of selection, but I can't see me doing it so I can't...

As I said I agree with you that the utilities are the answer: my recommendation (which is no more than a couple of hours work) would be a first indication to give an idea if any real work is necessity. My experience is that any inherited database is far more work than one expects even if it...

Agreed but this needs nothing except a text editor!

Just been looking at previous threads on the subject where it is suggested that it is a bug. (And work rounds using VBA). I then checked on my old laptop running 2003 where you cannot actually add more than three, and since in 2021 I can add lots of CFs I assume the bug explanation has credence.