by Carl Connett | Jan 29, 2014 | Arrays, Collections, Controls, Forms, Loops, Microsoft Access, VBA
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 Carl Connett | Jan 27, 2014 | Controls, Forms, Microsoft Access, VBA, Windows API
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...
by Carl Connett | Jan 23, 2014 | Arrays, Loops, VBA
This function will return a True if a particular value is found in an array. It works with one-dimension arrays only. For example, if astrCity is an array, you could check for the value Chicago like this: If InArray(astrCity, “Chicago”) Then ' Run logic here....
by Carl Connett | Nov 5, 2013 | Date, Time, and Age Functions, File Functions, VBA
This set of functions will let you track how long it took for one or more pieces of VBA code to run. The logic includes three sections: name and initialize the timer, end the timer, and write the results to a log file. Here is...
by Carl Connett | Oct 22, 2013 | Date, Time, and Age Functions, Microsoft Access, Number Functions, VBA
This function can be used to return total hours or total minutes from a column of Hours and a column of Minute values. For example, in the table below, an Hours value was captured separately from a Minutes value in a time clock application. If...
by Carl Connett | Oct 8, 2013 | Date, Time, and Age Functions, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, VBA
This function finds a date a certain number of days from a start date when weekends are not included. It can be used when your work week does not include Saturday and Sunday and you want to find a business day in the future. Microsoft...
