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    Reports and multiple complex template options - a plan

    Well folks, it seems I need to do a bit more learning (particularly about normalisation) before I start tackling this problem. With this quest of mine its allways 2 steps forward and 1 step back, and though I do learn best from having a project inevitably this approach leaves gaps in my...
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    Reports and multiple complex template options - a plan

    @zeroaccess Thanks for the info! Darn I was hoping to cascade, but there are other ways round this... if I can get each field combo box to represent a single independent paragraph of the letter/document (though long text). The difficulty would then be inserting a field into an inserted...
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    Reports and multiple complex template options - a plan

    @theDBguy Thanks for this! I'l give it try over the next couple of days and let you know the results :D
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    Reports and multiple complex template options - a plan

    @theDBguy Thanks I really appreciate the responce, especially given how general an issue this is My organisation has frowned on mail merge from excel in the past as it tends to confuse half our users who just don't like using computers, especially with all the options in the wizard. I have...
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    Reports and multiple complex template options - a plan

    Hi all If anyone has time to look at this plan and give their 2 cents I would much appreciate it. I am expecting there will be lots of problems with what I plan to do! Background I am looking to make a database (in part) to make creating word documents easier and quicker. Our current system...
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    VBA safe?

    Thanks folks! I can now use VBA conscious free :D @CJ_London I'm rather new, but I did get the impression Macros were a restrictive version of macros for the purpose of making their systems more user friendly and... well, stopping people like me doing stupid stuff :P Anyway I that’s my...
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    VBA safe?

    I have copied below the whole section for context and highlighted the scary parts "The decision to use macros, VBA, or both depends primarily on how you plan to deploy or distribute the database. For example, if the database is stored on your computer and you are the sole user, and if you are...
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    VBA safe?

    Hi folks I have been reading own introduction to access programing and I gotta say they sounds rather wary of VBA for security reasons. I can see downloading others databases could be a problem but I'm not quite sure what why they are suggesting your own your database on a server is an issue...
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    Append querys, Many-to-one relationships and forms, oh my!

    Ok I'm trying the low code method as I don't yet know SQL... yet :unsure: Originally posted for help as I got stuck again, but deleted it as I got unstuck, only to get stuck again Its the cycle of self teaching! @Pat Hartman Ok I worked out what a join was though this site...
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    Append querys, Many-to-one relationships and forms, oh my!

    Sorry I'm late to reply folks, I have had to make a couple of day long, scary, but sadly necessary, adventures outside the house during this crisis which took the puff out my sails! I'm safley home so back to database making (after oversleeping like a person who likes sleeping way too much)...
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    Append querys, Many-to-one relationships and forms, oh my!

    Oh wow, thats a lot different options! I feel like a kid in a candy store :D (or however the analogy goes) @theDBguy Nah, havent seen anything like this I have been using guides like these so far, https://www.guru99.com/ms-access-tutorial.html#13...
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    Append querys, Many-to-one relationships and forms, oh my!

    Not sure if this is more of a form question or a table one, but anyway... In short I'm trying to make a system allowing me to append data in one form to another when the form contains subforms (actually I am trying to do this with several similar forms but lets not confuse things). The problem...
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    Hello!

    Hi There I'm Newbie!.... not the best name but was the first thing that came to my head, and its totally apt as I am new to both access and this forum! I'm trying to learn some access for 2 reasons 1. Out of curiosity to see as an intro software work to see if I like it 2. I'm trying to make a...
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