by Jonathan Halder | Oct 23, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features
Had an interesting little bug in Office today in which a solid 2px black (#000000) border does not appear around a subform control (and this ends up applying to many other controls and shapes as well) I was really scratching my head, until I went online to find out if...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 18, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
As an Access developer, my typical knee jerk response to Macros is: DON’T USE MACROS, anything a macro can do, VBA can do! However, there are a couple of things macros can be used for that VBA actually can’t do. — GASP — WHAT??? One thing...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 16, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
They sound the same, don’t they? But they aren’t!!! Often you want to control elements visibility on forms. For example, you might want to hide certain fields or buttons from view when you are adding a record instead of editing it. In a recent case for my...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 5, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
So first things first. It is not recommended that you use spaces or special characters in your table names as it can cause problems referencing them or cases that are ambiguous and may cause unintended results in the code. But maybe you have used them in the...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 28, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features
This article from Microsoft Support discusses the differences between using Microsoft Access and Excel for managing data, helping users decide which tool is best suited for their needs. I’ve used Copilot to help me create a quick summary of the article you can...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 27, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
There are of course a multitude of uses for a relational database system. Remember that although natively Access defaults to storing data relationally in tables using the file based ACE system (Access Connectivity Engine), it can really use any ODBC or OLE DB...
