Recent content by WSA

Thank you Steve, that "Can Grow" on a hairline-thin field was what I needed to know as well! regards, WSA

Unfortunately not - I need it to be to the clipboard. Otherwise I'ld just chuck everything, as you say, into a variable. I've been looking at API answers on the web but many of them use the VB clipboard wrapper, and don't quote the all important copy-into-clipboard stuff that I'ld like...

I've looked through the archives, and some previous answers have part of what I want, but not all of it unfortunately. I'ld like to copy text to clipboard AND paste it again (using code, obviously!). I guess the answer is an API: if so can anyone give an example of API-code that copies to...

I've had this exact same problem, trying to build up the "Connect" variable with a ";PWD=mypassword".. Seems straightforward, but it just will not work. Can anybody post a snippet of code that opens a dbase with database-level security? I could change to ADO but it seems a...

Its potentially a LOT of text, as it stores concatenated details of what a user has selected in a previous form. Certainly >255 chrs. Now, I'm experimenting with having the report text box refer to a function - this works, but still runs into an odd error when the string gets too long. And as...

I need to incorporate a long text string (potentially longer than the maximum string-size for a form text box) into a report header - and because the database is being used in a read-only (on CD) environment I can't just write to a memo field and refer to that in the report. Is there some way...

Thanks Jim - that sorted it.

Access 97: I've used that complex function format (the one with &quot;acLBInitialize&quot;, etc) to write row-data to a combo box.<br><br>But how can I use it to write different data to both cols of a combo box? If I were using the Value List method I would do it by using semicolon-seperated...