by Jonathan Halder | Jul 19, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms
I had a customer who was confused as to why a checkbox was being checked or unchecked at seemingly random times. In this particular case, the checkbox label was very wide and butted right up to the button to save the data on the form and close it. In Access, when you...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 16, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
I had never heard of this keyword. I was perusing the Microsoft Learn web site and happened across this in the VBA reference here: Deftype statements (VBA) | Microsoft Learn Here is the basic definition from that page: Used at the module level to set the default data...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 11, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
I’m revisiting my ListBox control work from these two articles: Access ListBox Row Source and Type | Access JumpStart ListBox Column size adjustments | Access JumpStart The second article discsusses how to adjust column sizes using the ColumnWidths property and...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 8, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries
Sometimes my customers ask me for data from their database that they want to see in a way they’ve never looked at or needed to look at it before. When this happens to me and the answer is a data pull, I will often either pull up an existing query with the answer...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 5, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
I wrote a script to deploy my Microsoft Access application which utilizes my company’s Access JumpStart framework which is available for purchase from our store. In the previous parts I’ve explained how I’ve done the first 6 steps of my script: Step 1 – Update the...
by Jonathan Halder | May 17, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries
One great thing about Access is all the various ways it can connect to data in tables. Using ODBC, Access can connect to anything with an ODBC driver that you can install. I’ve done connections using datasource names as well as DSN-less connections to SQL...
