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    Replacement for Access

    Big oof!!
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    Replacement for Access

    Yes, this is what I've discovered. I found myself telling my boss "Yeah, I got into excel, but it's ugly, less user-friendly, and now we can’t do x, y and z ."
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    Replacement for Access

    My company has been trying kill off its use of Access for over 10 years now. Every time a new IT executive comes in, they decree that access will be eliminated. The only thing that has prevented this from happening is the company-wide question “Well, what do you want us to use instead?” Once...
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    Finding Min Date from Four Fields in a Record

    The four dates indicate when four different categories were worked for each record (person.) So a record may indicate John Doe was reviewed for category 1 (Date1) on 1-15-2016 and then reviewed for category 3 (Date 3) 6-12-2016, the expected result would be 1-15-2016.
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    Finding Min Date from Four Fields in a Record

    Good day. I have a table with four date fields, of which at least one field will have a date. I'm trying to write an IF Then statement on a query that will find the earliest date in all four fields. I started off with ... MinDate...
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    "Enter Parameter Value" Error When Updating Sharepoint Table/List

    Bumping since I'm still having this issue. Hoping a new set of eyes will help.
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    "Enter Parameter Value" Error When Updating Sharepoint Table/List

    Thank you. The actual table and field names have no spaces. I'm going to correct that above.
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    "Enter Parameter Value" Error When Updating Sharepoint Table/List

    Hello everyone. I have a list (table) that I've created in sharepoint 2010. I link to the sharepoint table with Access 2010 to update mass amounts of items at once. Some of the queries have no problem updating the sharepoint items, but other queries require me to "Enter Paramater Value." I...
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    Sharepoint Section

    Hi, I've seen a few posts regarding Sharepoint. Any chance of getting a Sharepoint section under "Apps and Windows"?
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    Converting Text Dates using CDate() and Querying on the Converted Date

    Bingo, Thank you. I do wonder though, regading "Though it may need to be a more realistic date"... I've worked for the same company for almost 20 years, and it's the only corporation I"ve worked for. They've always defaulted "active" records (term date - "00000000") to 12/31/9999. Is there a...
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    Converting Text Dates using CDate() and Querying on the Converted Date

    [Solved] Converting Text Dates using CDate() and Querying on the Converted Date Hello. I receive a text file with [Original Coverage Effective Date] and [Original Coverage Term Date]. The dates are in YYYYMMDD format. I need to run a query that pulls records that are active ([Original Coverage...
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    Finding Records where One Field has Duplicates But Values in another Field differ

    Hello. I know how to use the Find Duplicates wizard to find records with duplicate values in a field. But I need to create a query that identifies duplicate values in one field, but differing values in another. Example: RecID Color Shape 1 Black Round 2 Blue...
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    Isolating Overlapping Date Ranges on Multiple Records

    Bumping, perhaps someone can take another look. Thanks.
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    Isolating Overlapping Date Ranges on Multiple Records

    Checked out the link provided by spikepl. I see how it could be helpful in other scenarios where all records must be compared against each for "clashes". However, my scenario only requires that records for one person be compared.
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    Isolating Overlapping Date Ranges on Multiple Records

    Thank you spikepl. I need to determine which records have overlapping date ranges (for each customer only.) Checking out your link now.
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