Recent content by labanTek

Thanks so much for all your help CMP. I'm going to try the code in the on-click event of a form to see how it works. By the way can the Range be specified as a line and column parameter? Thanks again. labanTek

The idea given sounds great CautionMP. I have a word document that I want the students to for example, apply font size 16, font color blue, font type Arial to the first heading of the document. How exactly can I automatedly let an MS Access app check these attributes and apply a mark for the...

I've seen this done with commercial software, but can't seem to figure out how to check the word document.

Hi all I would like to create an app to assess my students in MS Word. I would like them to perform tasks in Word and I would like an MS Access app to check if the tasks were done correctly. Is this possible and can I get an idea how to do this? Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately in order to open this pop up form the database have to be accessed before using the shortcut on the cd to the app that is also on the cd. if the shortcut points to an invalid cd drive letter then that method still won't work. Thanks for your help though jklo

I've tried that but MS Access only accepts absolute paths as far as I know when setting the path to the icon images.

Hello all I have a MS Access app running off a cd I would like to know if it is possible to do the following: (1) set a relative path for the form icon because the icons set for forms and reports seems to only work with absolute paths to the icon image and if I try the cd on another drive that...

Thanks so much Roy-Vidar the first link was most useful, it opened a whole new window of API programming to me. Thanks again.

Hi all I was observing the following code for a countdown timer, can anyone explain how does importing this Lib "kernel32" library into the function, cause an initial time to be returned? I would like to find out more about is contained within these libraries. Part of the code is below. Any help...

Ok I'll try Zion7's code and I will take a look again at my code to hide the access database window. Thanks again to all that contributed.

Hi again, what I'm doing is that when the user exits the database app using a command button, it closes it and unknowing to the user, it opens a form on another database. When the user click this 'Exit' form the original app installation is deleted. The Hyperlink function does not fire the Open...

Thanks all for the suggestions, but the code given above by Zion7 gives errors that says 'User defined typr not defined' this error is prompted on both 'Dim DBase As DAO.Database' and 'Dim cat As New ADOX.Catalog'. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.

Hi the following code does not open my access database can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Dim myAccess As Access.Application Set myAccess = CreateObject(, "Access.Application") myAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase ("C:\test.mdb")

Hi can you tell me why the following code does not open my database? I placed this code in the Onclick event of a command button. Thanks in advance. Dim myAccess As Access.Application Set myAccess = CreateObject(, "Access.Application") myAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase ("C:\koykoy.mdb")

Thanks so much Remou.