I have a problem using the rich text control after upgrading to Access 2003.
Any form which already contains a rich text control gives an error "there is
no object in this control" on openning, whereas trying to add the control to
a new form gives "microsoft office Access doesn't ...

years ago I developed an application that communicated with a scale thru a
serial port. I believe the control I used was called 'MSCOMM' or something
similar. I am now looking to communicate with a label printer in a similar
method. where can I find this control or something similar ...

Very Basic Q:
Where can I find information about how to use the TreeView control?
Searching the help and the MS knowledge base doesn't seem to reveal much!
TIA

I am using solution schedule 7.0
In a form I have a tab control with 3 schedules (one on each tab)
representing different views.
when I reference a conrtol of type ctschedule ( the activex reference),

Hi, I checked out the code on the site that you have in some of your threads
Call the standard Windows File Open/Save dialog box
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm
What I want to do is open a folder and get all the xls files one at a time

I have a command button on my form that will print a
report. the report shows the relevant date and todays
date. Is there any way to set up the button so that if the
dates are within 7 days of each other on the report a

I have avoided to use active x controls because I thought they are causing
more problems then they are doing any good.
I a new application I would want to use the tree and list view control in
access 2002. Prior to that I like to fine some information or here some feed

I have no sound coming from my speakers.  I unplugged then repluged to have system think I just installed new equipment and it did acknowledge but now I can't seem to get any sound to come from it.  I do :  
Start
control panel
sounds and audio devices

Does it make sense to wrap an activex control into a class object of my own?
It seems that I can then define my own interface which makes better sense to
me. solution schedule seems overly complex and I could set many default
values, etc.

I have a calendar control on my form (access 2002). I have an event that
requeries a subform based on the date selected and displays a "task listing"
for that date.
Is there any way I can get the calendar to bold any dates in which there are

I need the capability to color (or otherwise denote visually)
individual lines of a list box (either foreground, i.e. the text, or
background would be fine) for Access 2000 and up.  Is there any such
animal out there?

I need to incorporate a voice recording and playback capability into an
app I'm building (access 200x). I'm reviewing chapter 13 in the VBA
Developers Handbook which discusses using the mci capabilities offered
by windows. And that looks doable.

Perhaps this is Off Topic here but I didn't find any *good*, relevant groups
so I thought I'd give it a shot.
Does anyone know where I can download the ActiveX SDK, or if this is
defunct, whatever has taken over for it? My installation script (Wise) is

Hope someone can help me with some high level info or link to reference
material on this question.
I have an intranet page with a legacy OCX control object which is loaded
into it. The OCX control has a number of public methods which can be

i'm connected using a lan to the internet. i keep on get a message saying
'an active x control on this page might be unsafe to interact with other
parts of the page. do u want to allow this interaction?
i keep on getting this message every few minutes even when no webpage is