darragh murray

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Programming an form filter in Ms Access is simple enough. Assume you have a combo box with two values - TRUE or FALSE - on some sort of boolean control. You want the filter to set this value to TRUE when the combo box reads TRUE, and vice versa. Usually you would simply put some [...]

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Here’s a quick tip with regards to report, and to a lesser extent, form design. Many times when you’re design Ms Access reports, often you will come across spatial problems, where you simply trying to fit too many controls (usually textboxes) on a report - even when you’re designing in landscape mode.
Two extremely handy [...]

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