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  1. Luddite Lad

    creating auto suggestions

    All you need to do is follow the Combo Box wizard. Make sure that you select all the information you want to show in the unbound Text Boxes, that will be related to your selection. Then when it comes to to point where the wizard shows you all the columns that will be shown in your Combo, set all...
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    creating auto suggestions

    When you create your combo box you have to make sure that you select all the fields that you latter want to show in the Text boxes. You don't actually have to show them in your combo though. Just remember that the columns in your combo box are numbered from Zero up.
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    creating auto suggestions

    You could use a Combobox that contains all your suppliers and then from there use that selection to populate a number of text boxes with the supplier details. Check the Sample DB
  4. Luddite Lad

    validate form totals

    This site should help you out, with the correct syntax for referencing your various controls.
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    Background colour dependant on a null

    Have you tried conditional formatting of the cell?
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    How to display value in report

    Firstly you will need to create a query that collects all the data, you need in your report, based on the information you have put on your form. Once you have created that query, it should be a simple matter to create a report based on the query.
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    Can you email out of a form?

    Whoops sorry misread/understood your response my bad :(
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    Can you email out of a form?

    Sorry but my code will only send the report to the nominated emails adress/es, that you place in the following line of code (from the above) Which I have coloured and bolded below for clarity. stAddText = "Name@hotmail.com" 'insert your own recipient email address/es between quotes
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    Can you email out of a form?

    Yes you should be able to, in the on change event of the field you wish to monitor place the following code; Dim stDocName As String Dim stMsgText As String Dim stSubText As String Dim stAddText As String stMsgText = "Data has been Change, Please refer to attached...
  10. Luddite Lad

    Query in Forms

    1) Me.RecordSet.RecordCount = 0 Tells you there are no records. You could test for this in the OnLoad event of the form and put up a MsgBox. 2) in the On current event check the current record number against the record count and if they are the same you could then lock the Next record button.
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    Geocaching

    That seems to be a fairly mean spirited attitude you have there.
  12. Luddite Lad

    Stop old dates

    Do a test on the edited date and if it is less than today's Date() then pop up a message box to notify the user that they have entered an invalid date.
  13. Luddite Lad

    Option Group 3 choices

    In your query criteria try IIf([Forms]![Form_Name]![Option_Group]=-1,-1,IIf([Forms]![Form_Name]![Option_Group]=0,0,-1)) or IIf([Forms]![Form_Name]![Option_Group]=-1,-1,IIf([Forms]![Form_Name]![Option_Group]=0,0,0)) ie. in the first criteria line put line one of the code and in the second line...
  14. Luddite Lad

    Update Query and ignore spaces

    Just what I was looking for, thanks :) I used (Left(Replace([clientname]," ",""),3))
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    Update Query and ignore spaces

    I have an update query that creates a reference. part of the update is the following code (Left([clientname],Len([clientname])-(Len([clientname])-3))) Which works fine. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to ignore any spaces that might be in the first three characters. So in other words...
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    referencing a subform

    Check out this link I think it will have what you are after.
  17. Luddite Lad

    Cell Reference in Access?

    Access does not use cell references, so whilst Mikes formula is valid, it is some what meaningless. You might want to do some reading on the differences between Excel and Access, and also read up on normalisation.
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    accessing data from subform & continueous form question.

    You might find this linkhelpful in formulating the correct reference.
  19. Luddite Lad

    Adding Checkboxes

    Point taken, thank you :)
  20. Luddite Lad

    Adding Checkboxes

    A check box has a value of 0 when unchecked and a value of -1 when checked. So couldn't you just put something like; =([check1]+[check2]+......[checkX])*-1 in the control source of the textbox?
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