Recent content by TristanM

Have now solved this myself - left here for anyone to read if they want. Hi, I'm having trouble working out the coding for this. This is the process I want to achieve 1/ Open a form tied to a filter (done - filter resides in the Filter filed in the Form properties box) 2/ Click a...

Again - hadn't thought about / properly encountered the datasheet view of a form. That could well do the trick. Thanks again

Okey-dokey. Thanks for clearing that up .. will stop getting frustrated that I can't implement it and actually get on with creating this db. Thanks for your help guys - s'been an education. Will probably have some more posts coming over the next few weeks as this gets bigger and the reality...

Okay - that's a pretty good and convincing list. Certainly there's bits in there which I hadn't considered. So is it recommended that they never be used? To be honest it'd be handy to have them whilst originally populating the database. I can then export and reimport the data after having...

Thanks for your reply, Why... good question ... probably because I'm used to editing records in a datasheet-like view in Excel. THe thing is so are the other people who might use this db. Because of this I can't guarrantee that end users won't try to edit directly in the table rather than...

Hi all, Access noobie so please bear with me and apologies in advance for whatever basic db concepts I've not yet come across or totally grasped :o. Is it possible to have a drop-down list in a field, the contents of which is dependent on the entry in another field on the same record. I...