MLH

I know you hate to read but I really recommend you read http://www.mvps.org/access/netiquette.htm
If you want to ride your ride your high horse the end result is that you will get less and less regulars who are willing
to offer you help (ie: you lose). CDMA is a tremendous resource with many highly talented people willing to offer help,
but nobody likes to do someone else homework.

I suggest you a) lean to use the help files effectively, b) learn to search Google effectively (especially Google
groups) and c) most importantly, learn to listen.

Wayne Gillespie
Gosford NSW Australia

Comment:

1. So far no one has. But perhaps some will ask for more details, because
the question isn't wonderfully clear about how and where and when the OP
wants to join the two fields. When someone does this with your questions,
you tend to complain.

2. If you read Wayne's answer you will notice that he addresses many
possibilities; you have complained about such respsonses being off-topic.

3. Recently you asked for comment; when one asks for comment one should
expect to get comment, even about Google. It's entirely inappropriate for
you to ask for comment and then to complain about the comment.

4. At least two people have written free utilities to help you with the
problem you were dealing with when you said, "I can't really afford to
buy any of the excellent commercially available 3rd party tools I've
looked at." So far, your reponse has been zilch.

5. You lost a thread. You've been posting in CDMA for three years. And
you lost a thread! Going to Google and finding the thread is the work of
twenty seconds. You showed your respect for and gratitude to those
persons who donated their time and skills to helping you in the lost
thread, by simply (re)posting a slight paraphrase of the question.

6. You haven't found things in the Help file. You've been working with
Access for three years and you can't find things in the Help file. It
seems you don't know how to use the Help file. And when, because of this,
you can't find things in the Help file, you respond that your help file
is lacking. Of course it is, because Bill Gates, noting your postng
pattern and knowing your need for special answers to bizarrely phrased
questions gave you your own special and unique help file.

7. While you were unable to find the CDMA thread where you asked for and
received help and you were unable to find Help or Google references to
Disable F11 Access97 you were able to find the post where I called David
stupid. And you decided to use this disagreement between two of the
regulars here as justification for your own fractured interaction with
one of them.

(Have you noticed I didn't stop at three this time?)

Try taking some of the advice that has been offered here by several
posters. Try changing. Try understanding that almost any question raises
other questions, other factors which should be addressed. Try
understanding that taking a few minutes to make your question as simple
and clear as possible shows respect for everyone who may read and try to
answer the question, shows an appreciation for the communal nature of
usenet groups. Try being fair to those who respond. Try understanding
that any response is better than no response. Try understanding that
those with whom you have been battling recently did not pull your name
out of hat; the battles started because of your posts. When you get a
response you don't like try thinking, Why?"
The culture of CDMA is fluid. Make a few good posts. In two weeks you'll
be a hero.