I've got the very same problem - found this is in "Bug of the week" - only thing is, the microsoft knowledge base thing isn't there any more - I have seen an alleged fix to a similar problem in an earlier version of Word - seems to have no relevance (refers to files and things that...
You sound like a complete beginner (like me - although I have been at it a little while and think I am getting there!) - actually a complete answer to your question would be a manual in itself - but start by making sure that your tables form a single relational database, and that all the...
Thanks for your help.
Unfortunately, AcDialog doesn't do what's needed here - I suspect my problem is, as you say, creating a redundant form in the first place.
Sorry to be so dumb, I am an old Clipper programmer writing his first effort in Access and not finding it at all easy - but what is...
Thanks for that, Steve - was fiddling with the properties and got there by myself about the time you posted your answer. I have set Enabled off and Locked on for each field and sub-form in the form involved - and now have the form I originally wanted - pure display and no input.
Still very...
My application requires a form purely for displaying a record - not to be editable, since most users have only "reference access" to the database, and need not (in fact must not) edit records.
I have a form which works precisely as I want it - in "properties" all the...
I am writing a library (as in room full of books and things) application - client has everthing else in Access, so it is appropriate that this application is too. I am not experienced in Access and am finding it very fiddly!
The situation is that I want to use combo boxes for the input of...
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