Recent content by Ergo30

Hypetia What I am trying to do is to capture the first part of text from a text box and get it to appear in either a label or another textbox. The textbox that you type in will be the description of the a problem, the first sentence will be a brief description of the problem. I want this...

Skip Many thanks for the code, the only problem is when using your example with just two text boxes I get an error on the s = " " part, it returns a Complie error: 'Invalid outside procedure' message. It may be better to just pick out the text up to the first full stop. any chance of...

Bob Thanks for replying so quick, I am pretty fresh to the visual basic thing, would you mind putting some code up to demonstrate what you mean. Thanks Simon

Hi I need help again. I am trying to get the code to be able to read the first 5 words from a text box and copy them into another textbox. Please help Cheers Simon

Thanks to all for you input on this one. I'm getting a strange feeling that I should not be using a pop up message box:) Thanks to George for the idea of something less intrusive which I have now implemented. What I have now is a text box that changes from 'Ready' to 'Call logged'...

Strongm I think what your saying is to store directly to Excel. If I am right could you let me have some code that does this for me. at the moment I am using PRINT to a text file and ideally it would be better to store direct into Excel. As this will a multiple user application I cannot have...

George Thanks again for answering another of my questions, I will on later to try your suggestions so I will feed back here. I agree with you on the message box thing but could not think of another way, I will give yours a try. Cheers Simon

George I will give this a go and feed back here, looks good though. And easy. Thanks

I'm trying to set a pause in my code so that when someone clicks command button 1 it saves their data into a text file and then brings up a msgbox telling them that the data has been logged. After about 3 secs I need to box to close down automatically and leave the form up to enter more data...

Hi I pretty new to Visual basic 6, having only dealt with VBA I am after some advice about writing the results from my project to a text file. I have successfully written the code (which is pretty simple stuff I know) to write the data to the text file but I need to keep the spaces between...