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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...

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?

From the highway code site it appears that both % and 1 in x nomlecatures are acceptable. I think this is backward compatability and all new signs will be in percentage with some old sinage in obscure places still giving the 1 in 10 or whatever. It is certainly a very longh time since I saw a...

Len, Almost! In the UK there are signs for steep hills are a red warning triangle with a black triangle inside that slopes down to the right, indicating steep hill downwards and the opposite indicating a steep hill upwards (a triangle sloping up from the right). Of course, you are likely to...

I just found the same site checking this out myself. :o Apologies to all those in whom I have planted a false idea. The original explanation given is correct: Units of rise over one hundred horizontal units gives the percentage, thus 1 in 10 would give 10 rise over 100 along = 10% A 100%...

Hi MStCyr, Thanks for the response. It wasn't really an active thread so I didn't expect anything immediately. I have been further messing around with this and searching the forum. For one of my uses (ranking personnel for telephone listing etc) the number is meaningless so I can simly not...

Thanks Guys, I have checked out Steve Lebans site and the latest version of the utility supports using a bitmap as the background. :) This may be in the version that GHudson posted as there are some mentions of bitmaps in the code. http://www.lebans.com/changemdibackground.htm Anyway, if I...

Matt, I thought it was a percentage of the 90 degrees between horizontal and vertical. Thus a 0% 'hill' is a flat road and a 100% 'hill' is a vertical cliff. A 60% hill means you are ascending or descending more than you are traveling horizontally and a 40% hill would be the other way round...

Thanks for the replies Gents. Ted, I am using the DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdAppMinimize to minimize the whole application rather than just the form the button is on. I think docmd.minimize will just minimize the form it is on. ghudson, Thanks for the link. This site explains what the AcComands...

A possibly apocryphal story about the construction of the Nuclear Power station at Hartlepool in the UK. The designs were American and so had to be converted in to metric units for construction in the UK. This was around the time of metrication in the Uk and so not everyone knew that an inch...