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Hi, I am having my first real stab at calling stored procedures from Access and I am having some difficulty getting past what seems like a silly hurdle. I have built a very simple stored procedure to return a single value from a table. I have tested the sproc in the query analyser and can...

Hi, I have a requirement to find emails from a particular sender. The way I would like to do it is to create an instance of outlook and automate the find function. Therefore displaying the found emails within outlook so the user can carry on from there replying or whatever to particular emails...

Hi can someone point me in the right direction of this. I wish to, in code, create a VBA function from the contents of a text file. Essentially I want to be able to see if a text file exists. If it does then take the contents to create a function. The bit I am lost on is how do I create a new...

Can the read only property of a file, eg a word doc, be changed by code? Many thanks Dan.

Hi, I have spent the best part of the day cruising the web including the help here but failed to stumble across an answer. Essentially is it possible to expose a list of possible outlook address books for linking to a database for the user to select. Once selected from a list link the table...

I put this in the Word forum on here but wasn't sure if that is the right place. If here is wrong let me know and accept my appology. However I could really do with some pointers as I am creek bound and paddleless. Many thanks http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=84102

Sorry if this sounds the same to you as other posts. Effectively I need to remotely access a number of sites and I have been searching the forum for an answer and am still not sure. My questions are as follows. 1. I have win XP Pro so can I use something like Terminal server? 2. PCAnywhere v's...

Hi, I wish to return the path for the database where a linked table is located. I will continue looking myself but if anyone has the answer to hand I would appreciate it. Many Thanks Dan

Hi have searched but not found the answer to this. When my phone rings I want to get some details up on my screen based on the calling number. Any ideas what is involved in doing so. Many thanks in advance. Dan

Hi, simple question but probably not a simple answer. Can you package up an application to run on a mac? Cheers Dan

Haven't done any access work for ages so am feeling rather rusty. However I've just thrown a tab control on a form and I want it to blend into the background. Tab controls don't have a background colour property? Transparent isn't making it transparent. Now I can't even remember if its possible...

Anyone have any suggestions of nice ways to sort an open report?

I'm stuck without the help files for a week and I have a little project and I can't remember the syntax or quite how I did it last time. I have in a folder some text files that I want to iterate through and interigate the contents. Essentially can someone point me to the syntax to expose the...

Does anyone do contract or other work in the finance markets? Have been considering doing a short bit of contract work and have been cruising the web and it seems the rates are considerably higher for financial services possitions. Am just curious how you get there without any finance skills.

If a dll is slightly different. Say not as upto date as the one from which the application was design in. How do you sort the problem. I've spent a few hours a day this week trying to figure it out and search here and elsewhere but either I am missing something or I'm very very dense. Dan...

Hi I've established a common sort of missing reference problem with run time versions that I'm distributing to a client. Db works fine on my machine Access 2002. Run the thing using the runtime short cut on my machine no problem. Create the packaged application, run the set up and instal the run...

Having one of those days when you have done it before but can't remember how or even who you are. What variable do you declare when defining a menubar. Cheers Dan

Hi, have recently migrated an application from Access version 2.0 to 2002. This was then packaged up with run time licenses and distributed back to the machines it originally ran on in version 2.0 Although it ran fine on my version of 2003 (saved as 2002) some of the functions fell over. The...

Never had to buy my own software before so on looking I have this question. Want to buy Office 2003 Pro and can see widely varying prices. Seems some come with just CD and licence and others (more expensive with documentation) Worth gettin with docs? or just buy the cheaper thing. Cheers Dan

Hi, I have just found this site after spending the morning trying to find an answer to a simple question. I've been developing using MsAccess for nearly 10 years working for small to large organisation. Although I have written quite a few application the deployement has been done by others. Now...