POLL: Access users on this forum

[Fifty2One]

BASIC? He he, I remember that too, high school in the early 80's, IF THEN ELSE GOTO, not to mention saving programs on tape casettes, woo...only Access training I've had was as part of an Office XP class I took in '03. Any additional help I've gotten was online, no offence to this forum but for Access questions I ask at MDBMakers , excellent advice to be had there and not as heavily trafficked as this forum. I post as kauchen there in case anyone's checking...

saving programs on tape casettes wow you were spoiled by modern technology... we were using paper ticker tape for programs and cards for data...
just tried to look see at MDBMakers - looks very slick but definately NOT for those of us with dial-up speed...

 

[Cosmos75]

Self-taught with A LOT of help from members of this board.

 

[qailoh]

none taken here, different preferences rule for each person.

I don't like the format and I can find posts here and answer posts much easier, at least in the presentation. So, my preference is the vBulletin style and others, including MDBMakers, UtterAccess, and the MS forums, just don't do it for me. But, hey - that's MY preference.

Again I would like to apologize for any implication I might have made that the help on MDBMakers was of any better quality than what is available here. I never meant to imply such, and did first become aware of this site while I was researching an issue I was having with exporting some data from Access to Excel in an acceptible format, a solution for which I found here but due to my organization's policies on downloading external applications, and my lack of advanced skills, I would have been unable to implement. Eventually I did receive coaching on a method I could accomplish over at MDBM.

I've been feeling like an ass for spending far too much time trying to debate with this forum's two resident trolls without actually checking out the available instruction on this site, and after spending some time following the technical threads I must state that the help available here is outstanding. Thank you (all of you here who take the time to help) for sharing the benefit of your skills and experience.

 

[Rich]

I've been feeling like an ass for spending far too much time trying to debate with this forum's two resident trolls

Who forced you to, was somebody holding a gun to your head, maybe there was something missing in your life?

 

[qailoh]

Who forced you to, was somebody holding a gun to your head, maybe there was something missing in your life?

Nice to see you self identifying as a troll, Rich. Debating trolls is ultimately a futile exercise, but taking a stand against someone who is a racist, misogynist, homophobe, disrespectful of the sacrifices made by those who serve their country in the armed forces and is in general an all out tasteless, arrogant, incompetent, condescending fornicating rectum (please feel free to make use of dictionary.com to find the more vulgar and obscene synonyms for these last two words, I would not want to stand accused of not speaking down to your level, as Col suggests one must do in a debate) is just the right thing to do. I do hope that answers your question.

 

[Rich]

Nice to see you self identifying as a troll, Rich..

Where?

Debating trolls is ultimately a futile exercise, but taking a stand against someone who is a racist, misogynist, homophobe, disrespectful of the sacrifices made by those who serve their country in the armed forces and is in general an all out tasteless, arrogant, incompetent, condescending fornicating rectumn

Who are you talking about?

 

[ColinEssex]

Debating trolls is ultimately a futile exercise, but taking a stand against someone who is a racist, misogynist, homophobe, disrespectful of the sacrifices made by those who serve their country in the armed forces and is in general an all out tasteless, arrogant, incompetent, condescending fornicating rectum

Nah, don't put yourself down - you'll come through it, stick with us and we'll see you ok.

Col

 

[Rich]

Debating trolls is ultimately a futile exercise

This isn't written in composed English, is it?

 

[Joe8915]

Nice to see you self identifying as a troll, Rich. Debating trolls is ultimately a futile exercise, but taking a stand against someone who is a racist, misogynist, homophobe, disrespectful of the sacrifices made by those who serve their country in the armed forces and is in general an all out tasteless, arrogant, incompetent, condescending fornicating rectum (please feel free to make use of dictionary.com to find the more vulgar and obscene synonyms for these last two words, I would not want to stand accused of not speaking down to your level, as Col suggests one must do in a debate) is just the right thing to do. I do hope that answers your question.

I guess he told it like it is

 

[shades]

My only formal computer training was in college - a course on Fortran IV on an IBM 360 in 1968.

I am self-taught (books and forums) in both Excel and Access - perhaps it shows.

My first Access project was literally trying things until they worked, then eventually having someone check and make recommendations. I went through five iterations of the project over the past six years. Each time starting from scratch. I finally had it working well (all iterations gave correct data in queries, just not efficient or well designed), and then the company hired outside vendor to host it on a web site for multiple points of access, meaning that Access was outgrown (I work for a Fortune 50 company with 60,000+ employees).
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[doco]

I have not. Although August 1, 2 I will be attending an advanced class - a first for me.