Automatically Add Controls to a Form Using Table Fields
In a recent project, I needed to create a Microsoft Access datasheet form based on a table with a lot of fields. If I used the form wizard, there would be more text boxes than would easily fit on the form. The manual solution was to drag a set of fields from the...Get a list of form controls sorted by tab order
When you iterate through a collection of controls in a Microsoft Access form, the order of the list of controls that you end up with may not be sorted as you expect. Rather than being sorted by the tab index, the list will be sorted by the order in which the controls...Scroll in a Microsoft Access text box using the mouse wheel
Microsoft Access does not have built-in mouse wheel scrolling in form text boxes. You can provide mouse wheel scrolling by writing some VBA code in the Form_MouseWheel() event procedure. Trying to scroll in a text box can be particularly frustrating if the bottom of...What Customers are Saying about Extra Mile Data
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