If you have worked with Access for a while, you have probably at one point or another tried to loop through the controls collection on a form, like the below example:
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Dim ctrl As Control For Each ctrl In Me.Controls If ctrl.ControlType = acTextBox Then 'do something End If Next |
And as such, you are already aware that…
Over the years I have many times tried to add the functionality of restoring a popup to the same location/size in which it was closed. But so far this always came with a risk with multi monitor setup. Say a…
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If you have recently updated your office, and you are on version you might have noticed a peculiar graphical issue. Suddenly when using a right click menu, sometimes the menu won’t disappear after you are done with the menu. This…
A few weeks ago I mentioned that Karl Donaubauer was trying to gauge whether there was enough interest, for him to host an english speaking version of his very popular german speaking Access conference. And thankfully enough people signed up,…
As per usual, I was working in my database and had modified a form and module, as well as removed a module I no longer needed. I accidentally hid MZ tools “add Line numbers” function, which proceeded to add line…
Karl Donaubauer, who has been an Access MVP for 19 consecutive years, and have organized dozens of german conferences in both Access and .Net have decided to try to gather momentum for an english speaking conference in Vienna this spring,…
I gotta say, WOW. I don’t think I ever imagined something like this would happen. Microsoft published an official tutorial series on what you can do with Access, and how to proceed with getting started on our favorite tool. I…
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