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I am using big buttons on my forms and have a lot of text to say what the button does. The text is doggedly centre aligned. Is there a way to left align it? Thanks in advance Tony

I want to swap between any one of four Access databases on my system. I can do this with buttons on a form using "call shell" etc. Is there a way of restricting Access to only a single occurrence, rather than Access opening each time in a new window. I know I can do it from the file menu and...

Hi all I have a button on my Form which On Click runs an Event Procedure which among other things has a "Call Shell" instruction to run PKpak. PKpak is a DOS program and runs in a DOS window. PKpak then zips up several tables which have just been exported as dbase3 files. (I am using PKpak so...

Beginner needs help again. I have written some vba code to do some external file handling and attached it to a button on a form. This all works fine. However I really need to run this code from a button on my switchboard. I think I need to convert it somehow so I can use the "run code" option on...

I need to be able to import a table (dbase3) from a floppy disc to update a table in Access. To do this I would like to do the following file operations using a macro. 1) check for presence of the file on the floppy (a:\Tillsale.dbf). 2) Import the floppy to Access then update the Access table...

In my Stock Control projectI have a table called Master and a table called Removed. From a Form based on Master, I want a button to move the current record from Master to Removed, i.e when the button is pressed the current record from Master is appended to Removed and then deleted from Master...

I have a form to show values in from a table called Master. One of the fields in the table is called TSmin and contains integer values. I need to attach a macro or something to a button so that when I push the button TSmin increases by 1. Sorry to be a Newbie here. All help welcome. Tony

I have constructed a Query form to edit two tables. The main table is a list of items in shipments received from many different suppliers and each shipment received is given a login number. In the Query form I do a Find and Filter by Selection to restrict the data to a particular Log number. I...

Well, not really address labels, but similar. I own a shop and all my products are on a database. At present I use Lotus Approach to print out display tickets showing description of item, price etc. These print out like address labels, e.g. 3 labels across the page & then down etc. I am...