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• Display real-time information with the ControlTip Property

  28 Nov 2011

  Today's Power Tip is provided by Juan Soto, Microsoft Access MVP and an expert on Access with SQL Server. Using ControlTipText property to display real time information The ControlTipText property is usually associated with providing static information, usually a helpful tip for the user - for example...
• Lists unlimited: let users add new values

  20 Jul 2011

  It happens all the time: there's a list of choices but it doesn't have the choice you want. No worries! You can enable folks to add items to a lookup field. I've listed below some relevant tips from the community and the main MSDN topic on the subject. Justin Ferrel offers a how-to on using VBA to add...
• Free preview of Total Visual CodeTools 2010

  7 Jul 2011

  The good folks at FMS, Inc. have kindly made the latest version of their Access/VBA development tools freely available for use until August . Whether you're writing new code, updating old projects, or taking over someone else's work, Total Visual CodeTools helps you deliver better, standardized solutions...
• Wrap text in Access

  15 Apr 2011

  How do you wrap text in Access? It's a question we hear quite frequently on Office.com. It may surprise you to learn that in most places where text is displayed in Access, text wrapping is on by default. The key is making sure there is enough room for the text to wrap. The process for doing that depends...
• Power Tip: Integrate Silverlight into an Access database (part III)

  6 Mar 2011

  Software developer Derrick VanArnam and database administrator Russell Fox continue to experiment with using Silverlight in conjunction with the Web Browser Control that is included with Access 2010. Many of you have been following along on their blog , where you can view the previous two posts on this...
• Use code to "undo" things in Access

  31 Jan 2011

  One of the more common tasks on a computer is to undo something you just did by mistake. At least, it's one of my more common tasks. CTRL+Z is my friend. But not everyone uses keyboard shortcuts - that's why there's an Undo button in the Microsoft Office user interface. Trouble is, sometimes folks just...
• Power Tip: Change the default behavior of controls

  25 Mar 2010

  Today’s guest blogger is Nadia Szucs, president of N-Soft , a provider of IT consulting services to businesses of various sizes in the Greater Toronto Area (Canada). N-Soft specializes in custom Microsoft Office product solutions centered around Microsoft Access implementations. I would like to share...
• Manage large groups of controls by using the Tag property

  5 Jan 2010

  Today's guest blogger is Access MVP Garry Robinson, who offers the Smart Access collection of articles at http://www.vb123.com/kb . In Smart Access Answers , Doug Steele was asked “What if I have a number of different controls–say, text boxes, labels, and check boxes and I want to make them invisible...