How do I get the switchboard "off-focus"?  After I click a button on it, and
have a form or report open, the switchboard stays on top, and the opened
object was put behind.  Thanks for advice.

I have a form with 3 command buttons, labeled "This Month", "Last Month" and
"This Year".  It's the "pre-form" to another form that has a date field in
it.
The onclick property for each button opens the very same form, but I'd like

I am building a personal databse to keep track of all of my roleplaying
characters. I borrowed the phone book in the northwind sample database and am
modifying it for my purposes. I wish to be able to click on a character name
in the phone book/directory and the form to modify ...

I created a form with a field for the telephone number.  The field is defined
as a text field with an input mask of \(999")"999-9999::- which I created
using the wizard.  I also defined an input mask for the field in the form
using the wizard.  Now when I open the form I get the ...

Does anybody know how to open a form in Filter Mode? I have a form with lots
of records set to dataentry mode. I want the form to open and immediately go
to FilterByForm mode. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

I found in the MS access reference help files that I can use the Today method
to set the value of the calendar control to today's date.  
The syntax would be: Beginningdate1.Today
Can anyone tell me where I need to put this?

Can anyone help me how to indroduce datas in a form for a period of time and
then
compare them with datas from the same period previous year?
For example

Hello there!i have created a list box in a form where all my clients names
appear.When i click in the list box and i type the first letter the list box
works as an anchor leading me to the first name with that letter.I can not
figure out how this can work for more letters.Say for ...

I use the following rowsource code to filter one list box by another.
SELECT tblStudents.StudentNumber, tblStudents.Name, tblStudents.Group FROM
tblStudents WHERE tblStudents.Group=forms!frmGrades!lstGroupName;
No problem, except it doesn't work except when the form is opened.  ...

This is with Access 2003 in 2000 mode.
I have a number of fairly simple forms based on some linked MySQL tables.
Whenever I add a new record using the forms all the fields display
"#DELETED" until I close the form and re-open it, the fields then appear as

I'm using Access 2000 - I have a form with a Tab Control page.  The Tab
Control page has 6 tabs.  I have a series of text boxes on each tab for
entering data.  I want to place an individual image on the relevant tab next
to each individual text box.  The reason for this is I am ...

I have a main account with several subrecords
now, since the subrecords are limited (9 max) and have many fields
I was thinking of dynamically building tabpages instead of using a
continuous subform

Here's another combo box question.
I like it when the user start to key in a combo box for it to automatically
dropdown and zone in on the desired selection.
I have done this using the keypress event, but I have to exclude certain

I need a very simple line graph to chart a temperature pattern in a course
of time (temperature on the Y axis and the time on the X axis). Simple.
However, simple as it sounds, I have not been able to get the Chart wizard
to do it. I don't need any cummulative figures, or ...

I have a subform shown as a table.
When I scroll horizontally, I see the fields that are not visible, this
is good!
The problem is that there is also a lot of grey area after the last