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...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 23, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
I was posting some information on the Option Compare statement in Access VBA and was trying to find more information about the Option Compare Database default option and what exactly it means. From the online Microsoft VBA documentation: Option Compare Database can...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 12, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
I watched half of a new Access Users Group video on the tree view control by Pete Poppe which I link to at the bottom of this message. I learned something new. The last time I used the Treeview control I never ended up implementing it in a customer’s project...
