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    Basic! Populate combo box from table

    Oh right, will do.
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    Basic! Populate combo box from table

    "Digital" was whoppingly general stretch that I was using for screen. I have read through the topics - what is normalization, Entity relationships, Normal Forms, Unique Indexes and Surrogate keys from the Rogers Access Library. He references a book on some of his resources "Database design...
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    Basic! Populate combo box from table

    Hi Jdraw - I've read through that (and a few of the other thing's that he's put onto his site) and I'm currently trying to relate it to my example of the parts of my computer, their colours and the materials of them. I'm a bit confused about assigning the primary key though, the data I'm using...
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    Basic! Populate combo box from table

    Nice one Jdraw :) I'll read through and hope some sinks in.
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    Basic! Populate combo box from table

    Really basic but I'm only just learning Access - What I wanted to do basically was create some kind of basic report of information from the parts of my computer. So the information that I had to start with was Colours Silver Black Material Metal Plastic Rubber Digital Component Screen...
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    Form - Unbound field?

    Thanks for the response J - OK, so this is the formula to make the Sub Total the Sum of Unit Price times Quantity I'm a step or two back from here though ;) I'm not sure how to get the actual part that say's 'Subtotal' onto my form. The other part's have been created by dragging them in from...
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    Form - Unbound field?

    I'm following a tutorial at the moment and I'm a little bit stuck trying to replicate a form. I want to add an area that's not on the field list Here's theirs - Here's mine - Here's the field list (without the sub total property) - I'm not sure whether I'm meant to just add rectangles...
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    Arranging Items in a box

    Hey, OK I found the little grey cross hair :) I think I had to delete the rectangle first though, I'm not sure... Any way, I deleted the rectangle, clicked the cross hair and removed the layout. Which allowed me to change the spacing like you said :) Then I put the rectangle in retro and sent...
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    Arranging Items in a box

    I put the controls inside a rectangle...? I'm not actually seeing that little cross hair thing :/
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    Arranging Items in a box

    I'm following a tutorial thing and I'm not too sure (it doesn't say) how to neatly arrange check boxes within a box in a form? They're all scrunched up, what I wanted to do was select size / space and reduce the vertical spacing, but for some reason that's unavailable. If I select...
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    Binding an object

    I'm trying to follow a tutorial at the moment and I'm having trouble with binding an object, here's the tutorial : I'm using Access 2013, but when I follow this I keep getting this error message : It doesn't make a difference If I try uploading an image from a different location. I'm not...
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    Nav buttons

    Oh right, cheers. Can't think of a reason why someone would want to turn them off? Options are always good though I guess.
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    Nav buttons

    I'm following some online tuition at the moment and I'm not too sure what they mean by the following; I'm in a blank form - I've not added anything yet... AFAIK the nav button's are for moving through pages? cheers!
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    Access 2010 / 2013 menu

    Hi Pat - I'm not too sure. The one that I thought was 2010 is a screen shot from an online course thing (so it's a screen shot of a screen shot) I'm sure it's cool, just wasn't too sure if there were any major changes or anything that I should be aware of.
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    Learning Access - Book

    yeh link's at the bottom of the page, leads to http://www.functionx.com/access/resources.htm no worries though
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    Learning Access - Book

    jdraw - do you have any of the resource files for the Access lessons? (http://www.functionx.com/access/index.htm) A lot of the files they refer to aren't actually there (not in the downloadable resources) which is annoying... Long shot but thought Id ask, cheers.
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    Access 2010 / 2013 menu

    I was wondering about the difference between 2013 / 2010 functions. I'm following a course at the moment which is using 2010, although I have 2013. One example of a difference is the following - This is the 2010 Find box, with 'Customers' in the 'Look in' field ACCESS find 1 This is...
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    Learning Access - Book

    Hi Jdraw - Yeh I've had a little look about YouTube but didn't really see anything comprehensive in the same sense of ExcelIsFun or what have you... Had a (quick) look at those link's though, looks like there's some good stuff there, thanks very much :)
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    Learning Access - Book

    How do, interested in learning Access and have been looking for a bit of good source material. This books on Amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Access-2013-Programming-Computer/dp/1938549805/ref=sr_1_27?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382174567&sr=1-27&keywords=vba+2013 Not sure if anyone know's...
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    Learning - Make a phone book?

    Hi David - Well the main reason is for me to learn a bit about Access, but; I was going to make it with just the entries from my current address book on my phone, entries include; Name, Phone, Email, Home Number, Nature of relationship (work / friends / family etc), address.... So the...
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