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I am setting up message boxes in selected fields on my database, triggered by the MouseDown event (right click), to provide user-friendly help to inexperienced users. (ControlTip text is too short for my purposes.) This works well - the message box appears - but when the user clicks OK and the...

In my databases in the past I always used "Real" fields as Primary Keys, but recently I decided (reluctantly) to convert to the arguably "more conventional" method of using meaningless autonumbers as Primary Keys - (but only when the Real key field is longer than, say, 5 digits). There's no...

No doubt this has been written about before but I'm fairly new and too lazy to search through thousands of posts (search for "Solved"? Well I just tried!) Solved posts are rarely marked as such. So people who want to help can assume the post has been solved when it hasn't, or waste their time...

Been programming in Access since 1995 - completely self-taught. Thank goodness for Google, and the "for dummies" books! In the 6 years before that it was DataEase :banghead: During this time I designed and operated a Document Management database in the Oil and Gas Engineering industry, as a...