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When I copy a message from Outlook and paste into a memo field I usually get the error message "This is not an rtf file". Then I'll use memo pad to save the text as rtf and paste that into the memo field and often get the error message "Characters not supported". Is there a way to do this...

Is there a way to duplicate all the fields of a record that is being displayed in a form?

When I link a cell in a workbook to a cell in another workbook that is itself linked to a cell in a third workbook, I have to open the middle one for the top one to update. Am I stuck with that or is there some setup I can change to allow a workbook cell to update to a value two workbooks below...

On a form with a parent and child table, what code can I put on a button to insert a new record in the child table only. The code on the button provided by the wizard, inserts the new record in the parent table.

What code could I put on a button that would empty the contents of a table?

Can someone tell me the code to put on a pushbutton that will add the records of a table into another table? Thanks.

I am, all of a sudden, getting frequent (i.e. several times a day) "Index out of date" errors in one of our key tables. This use to happen when we had frequent system crashes which has not been the case for some time and system crashes are not happening now. We have Paradox 9, a Windows 2003...

I have Paradox 9 now running on XP machines. Is there a practical limit to the size of tables? The largest table I have is over 21,000 records and 42,400 KB.

Whenever a field is deleted from a table (or its name changed) one gets a "field not found in table" when a qery that has that field checked is attempted. The query cannot even be opened in design mode so as to de-select the no longer existing field. Is there a way to easily find out all the...

Thanks but we have gotten it righted now. Cntrl+Alt+UpArrow did it

I know this is not an "Office" question per se, but somehow I have caused my screen image to be inverted. How can I get it right side up?

I've created a macro with mail merge in Word 2002 that always creates Microsoft Visual Basic Run Time error 5852: "Requested Object is not available" with a pointer on the command ".Destination = wdSendToNewDocument". Can this be overcome some way? Here is the code: Sub ResumeBilling() ' '...

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I've created a macro with mail merge that always creates Microsoft Visual Basic Run Time error 5852: "Requested Object is not available" with a pointer on the command ".Destination = wdSendToNewDocument". Can this be overcome some way?

With the help of Tek-Tips users I've successfully developed Parodox button code that launches Excel. On our network we have different versions of Miscrosoft Office so that code works when the path is c:\Program Files\Micorsoft Officer\Office 10 (as programed) on those computers with that...