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Hi all, I'm using a common dialog to store the path of a document store on a local drive but after a week or so of blissfully easy browsing and hyperlinking it screwed up and I can't see why...any suggestions, this is what happens; 1) The common dialog suddenly started failing. Saying that the...

Dear all, I've created a button on all my forms that will update all the controls, subforms and list boxes on a form. What I'd like to do is call that function from outside the form, ie I need to update one form when something is changed on an unrelated form. I've made the button a "public sub"...

Dear All, I wonder if you can help me. On one of my forms I get an intermittent error message telling me that a value I have entered is of the wrong type. I've checked all the values in the underlying tables and as far as I can tell everything is ok, its mostly text/memo fields anyway. The...

Dear Fellow Accessers, Hi, I'm making a database to store the sales data from our sales departments. I have a very large table with all the staff past and present and a query that shows me which of these staff are actually working for us now. My problem is that not all of these staff have...

Dear Accessers, I'm trying to merge the names and addresses of customers out to word. I decided that I'd use a query and then use a button to call the merge wizard. The trouble is I don't know how to do it programmatically. Another small thing is, how do I do a carriage return?? I've tried |...

Dear Accessers, Hi, I've a small problem that I'm not sure how to solve. I'm making a staff/department performance database and I have a form that allows me to select a department. This is linked to a subform which shows me the staff in that department. I then noticed that of course staff...

Dear Access-ers, I am trying to update the names and number of pages in a tab control so that only current departments (things are likely to change quickly) are shown to the user. I would like to have it so that when the form is started the tab control looks to see which departments exist...

Dear fellow developers, I know this is going to sound like a really low brain question so I'm sorry. How can I call a function from within an event proceedure? What I have is a form that is based upon the date of the records kept ie each new date brings up a whole new set of records. I have...

Dear fellow users, I hope you can help me and I'm not convinced that I have posted this in the right place. I want to have a form that will allow the end-user to input daily data about salespeople by department. So I decided to have a tab for each department and then as that department was...