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Measuring Height of controls using the CanGrow Property in Access (Part 2)

by Jonathan Halder | Nov 11, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding

In Friday’s message, I was working on determining the height of the detail section with a Text Box control that has the CanGrow property set to “Yes”. It is possible to determine this when displaying the report in “Print Preview” mode...

Measuring Height of controls using the CanGrow Property in Access (Part 1)

by Jonathan Halder | Nov 8, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding

This property is on form and report sections and many controls like Text Boxes. This seems to be a wonderful property for automatically adjusting the height of things on a form until you make the inevitable discovery: It only works in a form when you are printing the...

Calculating the height of a sub-report

by Jonathan Halder | Oct 24, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding

First of all, it’s good to know that you can add a report to a sub-report control on a form. If you need to display multiple groups of data for informational purposes on the form, this can be a real game changer! I have a routine I use that’s in my library...

Some things to log in an Access Application

by Jonathan Halder | Oct 9, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding

When implementing logging in your Access app, some of the things you might want to log are: Opening and closing of objects which have VBA associated with them. Typically Forms and Reports. Try to add a log message which includes the primary key when you edit or add a...

Transparent = True or Visible = False?

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...

Access Primer for Businesses – way more than a database

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...
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