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    Click on Cell in excel to select access database record?

    was an Access database, but now migrating to a mainframe system, using Attachmate Extra!. I can talk to extra ok using VBA. my problem is getting a dynamic record selection by clicking on one of the part num cells, to obtain the data to send to the mainframe app. Standard excel table:- part...
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    Click on Cell in excel to select access database record?

    Hi, My users need to be able to click on a cell in an excel sheet. (this would be an alphanumeric part number) This action needs to take them to the record in a database for that part number. The process needs to be dynamic, as the sheets change regularly. I'm sure it's possible, but how? any...
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    Using Excel as a front end for Extra!

    Thanks for that, now got some bits of it working. Funny, but the last time i tried it (before posting) I couldn't get it to work, but it does now, weird... Geo...
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    Missing Toolbars & Menus in Word

    Thanks everybody, turned out to be the registry after all. I was looking in the wrong section. Duh! Now fixed, & another happy user. Geo...
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    Missing Toolbars & Menus in Word

    Ha! an easy one, I hear you say. Not So. The user has what looks like the usual 'full screen' word window, i.e. both the toolbars & menus are missing. Easy peasy, I thought, Alt V, get the view menu up & restore menus & toolbars, I wish!. Alt V does not work, In fact Alt anything is struggling...
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    Using Excel as a front end for Extra!

    Hi, Ok I know someone must have asked this before, I can find some refrences, but not the right bits to get me started. I have lots of tables of lots of data in lots of excel spreadsheets. (well it keeps me busy). This data refers to items on a mainframe database via Extra! I want the users to...

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