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    Upgrading to Microsoft 365

    I am in the process of purchasing a new Windows 10 Professional 64bit PC that will be running a trial version of Microsoft 365. My old PC is running Windows 10 64bit with Microsoft Office Professional 2007 suite, and I have all my Access databses running on that platform. What I am looking for...
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    Error message when attempting to open a table

    Hi Both, Thank you for taking the trouble to respond to my plea for help, and the offered suggestions on how to remedy my problem. Strangely enough having closed down my PC yesterday evening after posting my enquiry to the forum, and then not switched on for almost 24 hours, I have just in the...
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    Error message when attempting to open a table

    Hi, Today I have attempted to open an Access table that I practically use most days, and as I was going through the motions of opening it, when I right click on the table I received the message "Invalid Argument" when I click on the OK box the next message is, "Microsoft Office can't open the...
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    Access 2000 conversion to 2007

    All I can add is that I followed Bob Larson's advice and it worked perfectly for me, and I have quite an enormous database containing almost 14,000 records, and numerous fields for each record. However if you are worried about whether to use Bob Larson's directions, why not make a duplicate of...
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    Access 2000 conversion to 2007

    Yes it is an old thread! But I can happily say that the advice I was given, and followed over five years ago still stands good and I have had absolutely no problems with my 2007 database since converting from Access 2000 to 2007. Although not a regular forum visitor, it has always been a safety...
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    Automatic date entry for field changes.

    Thanks CJ I have much to ponder now, and hope to make a start this weekend with some experimenting.
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    Automatic date entry for field changes.

    Hi CJ Again can I thank you for taking the time to look at my question and provide me with some alternative suggestions to those of cjraw, I think that the last suggestion regarding the memo fields would be too complicated to consider, and I am also afraid that some of the fields that...
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    Automatic date entry for field changes.

    Hi jdraw Many thanks for your very interesting observations on my particular inquiry. In answer to your question. I have just the one database, I enter all my data in form view, but also often open the form in datasheet view when I require to look at multiple records at a time. What I would...
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    Automatic date entry for field changes.

    I have a database that contains 13,772 records and each record contains 34 fields. The database is used for historical research purposes. As I am constantly changing the content in one or more fields I would like to be able to have a field that would show the date of any changes that are made to...
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    Linking a field to a folder of information

    Thank you for the reply, but I am unsure what you mean by pages of multiple soldiers. What I have is a photograph of a soldier, as a jpeg image, I also may have some documents relating to him as pdf files, and these are all in a folder under his name on my hard drive, what I would like to do is...
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    Linking a field to a folder of information

    Hi I have an historical database table that contains information relating to soldiers. Additionally I have many photographs, and other documents appertaining to these individual soldiers stored in folders on my PC hard drive and I would like ideally, to be able to have a link from my...
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    Linking jpeg images to a database field.

    Thank you for your reply and although I have looked at the link, nothing seems to fit what I want to do with my access database. In essence I have a database that contains many fields of information about individual servicemen who were casualties in the Great War (13,780 at present), one of the...
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    Linking jpeg images to a database field.

    Can anyone tell me if there is a simple method of linking a field in a record in my access database, to a folder on my PC that contains jpeg images, ideally I would like to go from the database to the folder containing the jpegs using this method.
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    What has caused my database to slow down?

    Thank you for your reply, as a pure amateur I am unsure what you mean by turning off Name Autocorrect and also the reference to set Sub DataSheetNames to none. You refer to SP2, again I am unsure, I seem to recall when I was running Windows XP I had two service packs that were installed in the...
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    What has caused my database to slow down?

    Thanks for your response, in answer to your questions, (1) I am the sole user of the database. (2) I do not quite understand what you mean by split, I have a database in a datasheet view with twenty five fields and a total of 13,000 plus records, these contain purely names locations and dates...
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    What has caused my database to slow down?

    I have recently moved from Access 2000 running on Windows XP, to Access 2007 running on Windows 7 (64 bit). Over the past few weeks I have developed a problem with my database taking a long time to open up, sometimes taking up to three minutes, I have also noticed that when moving accross fields...
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    Access 2000 conversion to 2007

    Bob, All I can say is Bingo!! I now have a workable database with no error message, and it was really simplicity itself, I now intend to set to over the weekend and transfer all my Access 2000 databases over to my new format Access 2007, I am very grateful for your help and of course patience...
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    Access 2000 conversion to 2007

    Hi Bob, Again many thanks for your prompt response, I am going to sit down this evening and taking my time will follow your advice with the very simple and straight forward guidelines, and once complete I promise to report back, again thanks for the time you have given me, regards, Mike
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    Access 2000 conversion to 2007

    Hi Bob As an learner, you have me puzzled when you say create a new blank ACCDB file and then import everything from the old file. The database I have in Access 2000 has lots of fields, am I to understand that I need to create all the same fields in a new Access 2007 database and then go...
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    Access 2000 conversion to 2007

    Hi, I hope someone can point me in the right direction regarding my recent move over to Access 2007. What is the correct sequence in which you transfer a database created in Access 2000 over to Access 2007? This is the first time I have had difficulty in the process and I am receiving the...
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