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Add color formatting to columns in Combo Boxes and List Boxes
Today's guest blogger is Pavlo Pedan of ARGO Business Corp. He has 15 years of experience with Access and has a great site of tips  at http://sites.google.com/site/msaccesscode/ . As we all know, a List Box control has a Fore Color property. It sets Read More...
Sorting a Listbox Using Command Buttons
Today’s guest blogger is Daniel Lamarche. Daniel is the Training Director at ComboProjects , which specializes in providing custom training solutions in Microsoft Office products. I always thought it was cool to be able to sort a list by clicking the Read More...
Displaying Data From Related Tables on a Form
Today's guest blogger is Access MVP Scott Diamond. Scott is the principal of Diamond Computing Associates and the author of Microsoft Office Access 2007 VBA . This is a very frequently discussed issue. But before I get into the methods, you need to understand Read More...
A better way to reference tab control pages
In VBA, a common way to refer to the pages of a tab control is to use the Value property. However, Luke Chung, President of FMS Inc., recommends using the PageIndex property instead. Click here to find out why! Send your Power Tips to Mike and Chris at Read More...
Convert hexadecimal color codes so you can use them in code
Today's guest blogger is Michael Merlin, Lead Software Developer at Electronic Communities . I recently wasted an hour trying to set a field's Back Color property to the hex code generated by the color picker. I figured it out after some searching, but Read More...
Running an Access Parameter Query from Excel
Excel MVP Michael Alexander wanted to share this tip about running an Access parameter query from Excel. He describes the problem thusly: An Access parameter query is a kind of interactive query that prompts you for criteria before the query is run. Parameter Read More...
Expand only the subdatasheets you want
Today's guest blogger is Pavlo Pedan of ARGO Business Corp. He has 15 years of experience with Access and has a great site of tips  at http://sites.google.com/site/msaccesscode/ . If you have a form that contains subdatasheets, you can use the following Read More...
Using the ShowToolbar Method to Hide the Ribbon
Today’s guest blogger is Edwin Blancovitch. Edwin is president of Advanced Developers.net , creators of Easy Payroll , a software package to manage your human resources, payroll, scheduling, time and attendance needs. I have been using the ribbon for Read More...
Nulls vs. zero-length strings: a Power Tip from the past
Today's guest blogger is Access MVP Garry Robinson, who offers the Smart Access collection of articles at http://www.vb123.com/kb . A few months ago I purchased the rights to publish the Smart Access magazine online and it is from that collection that Read More...
Identifying the Record Selected on a Continuous Form
Today’s guest blogger is Edwin Blancovitch. Edwin is president of Advanced Developers.net , creators of Easy Payroll , a software package to manage your human resources, payroll, scheduling, time and attendance needs. Regularly when we create databases Read More...
3 new articles available on MSDN
MSDN writer Sal Ricciardi alerted us to the availability of 3 new articles on MSDN, two written by Luke Chung of FMS Inc. , and one co-written by Luke Chung and Dan Haught. Title Author(s) Performance Tips To Speed Up Your Access 2007 Database Luke Chung Read More...
Dynamically Resize a Subform Based on the Record Count
Today’s guest blogger is Vinny Malanga. Vinny is the CTO of IMI Software, Inc. , which specializes in software development for the real estate and property management industries. Many Access developers implement subforms to display data. Most often, at Read More...
Tracing Function Calls in VBA
Today’s guest blogger is Joel Graff. Joel is a field engineer with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) . Often, I find when looking for the source of an error in VBA code, a function call trace which returns the path of function calls preceding Read More...
Switch the Property Sheet on and off from VBA
Today's guest blogger is Pavlo Pedan of ARGO Business Corp. He has 15 years of experience with Access and has a great site of tips  at http://sites.google.com/site/msaccesscode/ . When you open a form or report in Design View, the Property Sheet Read More...
Using VBA to Send Data to a Table from an Unbound Form Control
Today’s guest author is Justin Farrell, author of the Access 2007 tutorial http://www.dealing-with-data.net . This is a useful trick which gives the Access Developer additional flexibility when working with forms and data. It uses Access VBA and DAO. Read More...
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