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  1. DickyP

    Oikophobe: Word of the Day

    I was confused by the title of this thread - to me, as to most Brits, an 'OIK' is 'uncouth or obnoxious person' (OED). Hence I assumed an oikophobe would be someone with a fear of oiks.
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    Pat Hartman has left the building

    No to mention my favourite from Tom Lehrer - 'what you get out a sewer depend on what you put in'!
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    Kicking the Habit

    Hadn't spotted the price - I was lent a copy. It's not even on the UK Amazon Web site.
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    Kicking the Habit

    If you want to be convinced to abandon AI read "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares.
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    Optimizing a query with multiple LIKE '%abc%'

    Surely for this particular example of a multiple expression search the obvious answer is to use Regular Expressions, which are part of SQL Server.
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    Showcase Your Relics!

    Brings back memories of university!
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    Showcase Your Relics!

    Probably zero value - but old ...
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    Microsoft Access: Edge Browser Control is finally here :)

    Ignoring the bits about inappropriate content this main thread has amused me somewhat. All that is happening is that something is being put back that was available in 'days-of-yore'. The IE browser OCX which disappeared at the start of the century worked beautifully and then was gone and if...
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    Seeking a Moderator for the Moderators

    I reality not much of a shift of anything in my personal opinion - except symbolism. More importantly does a religious assertion like BlueSpruces post have potential to cause the site problems - to me not, but who knows?
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    Seeking a Moderator for the Moderators

    I would say that preferably the moderator of mods should be excluded as an everyday mod, so I would be reluctant to go with Doc_man as I like his everyday style of normal moderation. Whoever course is chosen we will complain about the MOM (mod of mods) won't we? - so he/she will need to be...
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    UK Online Safety Laws - I, and therefore the site, are at risk

    Explains my point exactly - to me his usage in the case in point had no hint of nastiness (I went back and reread it). We remain at misunderstanding each other. Granted his post was not necessarily pleasant but the use of 'dear' wasn't special. To quote Winston Churchill - 'two countries...
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    UK Online Safety Laws - I, and therefore the site, are at risk

    As far as I can see we have very good moderators who are conscientious (and proactive) but the site does have one problem: the mix of UK and US members and the misunderstandings possibly engendered. A relatively trivial example was when Pat got hot under the collar about the use of the word...
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    Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious

    Actually when I started this thread I was far more focused. I can tell many tales of time gone by but I looking at the logic of what do you do when you have no system? Even if your have secure ack-ups of your data and apps, who knows where and how to find them and how do we work without the IT...
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    login page

    Ken's reply makes sense as it is functionally the same as creating a login class (for those with long memories you'll remember using hidden forms as classes in Access 95 before they were formally introduced into Access). I always do this in a class I name 'ThisApp' which contains everything I...
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    Help with formatting decimal places in calculated query field

    The query gives you the result of the calculation: formatting should be done when that result is used.
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    Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious

    Yeah, perhaps I should have phrased the questions as "Can anyone think of a GOOD reason why they shouldn't be doing this already?"
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    Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious

    Quote from today's papers. "Cyber attack contingency plans should be put on paper, firms told" Can anyone think of a reason why they shouldn't be doing this already?
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    VBA to print Word file and close is

    I assumed otherwise and that wasn't clear. However, you are just as right as me :)
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    VBA to print Word file and close is

    Kens post above is a great solution, EXCEPT the original posted code didn't have a file to print! A new document cnreated based on a template is an unsaved document. JPR is not opening the document but making it visible. The 'print' option is exactly the same as editing a Word document for real.
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    VBA to print Word file and close is

    This thread is a perfect example of the fundamental misuse of Word templates even by experienced Word users. You don't want to open the template but create a new document based on it (which JPR appeared to be doing). His problem would appear to be he is using Word.PrintOut rather than...
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