Recent content by waterdrop

Oh, that's interesting too (the Excel tips) - to an old guy it seems almost surreal that the tools for programming back and forth between the Office (or should I say "Microsoft Apps for Enterprise" haha) applications seem so smooth and extensive now. That's part of what has me back playing with...

Good morning and thank all of you very much. These are all good information for me. People coming at problems from different directions is a very powerful thing. Right away it reminds me that the goals of the data input person are different from the person looking at the field and that in...

I have a simple phone number field in a database. I'd like to hear some data management best practice thoughts about how this type of field is best handled. My own inclination is to use some sort of input mask for data entry, a text field for table storage of 10 characters and then some sort...

Thanks for the Welcome messages! -w-

I'm an older guy looking forward to asking a few Access programming questions here and there. I've been working in various IT areas my whole life - my dad designed computers in the 50's and we started programming Fortran together in the 60's when I was quite young. I've been interested in and...