I have a field where the customer's date of birth is entered.  I want the
next field to calculate the customer's age.  How can I do that?

I have 3 combo boxes on a form bound to columns on form's record source.
Selecting item in 1st combo limits selections in 2nd, and 2nd limits more for
3rd.
It saves row correctly in table based on combo choices, but if I scroll thru

When I add a record using a form the details all go in fine and they all
appear in the data table from which the form is designed. However, when I go
back to the form the new records are not to be found.
Reports do not include the new data eitherif they are entered using the form ...

I have one that is so simple that I need to trouble the masters with this.
I have a form, that when a dispatcher enters a stop number it needs to
automatically fill in the projected cost.
a Stop 1 is Automatically 380.00 US and every other stop is 50.00 US.

To Maximize Excel you can use
Application.WindowState = xlMaximized
Is there an equivalent for Access?

I am creating a tabbed form. I started in design view and selected tab from
the menu. The tabbed part covers up the grid. Is there any way to view the
grid on this tab?  How do people line things up nicely on a tabbed form?
Also, I was wondering if it is possible to change the ...

We recently installed new monitors on our computers - new ones are flat
screen, old were CRT. Problem is, because of the change in screen area and
viewable area, our Access forms are now very small and we can't *zoom* it to
enlarge it to fill our screen (like can be done with Word ...

I am using a calendar control on a form and would like to find a way to
cancel or not choose a value and just close the calendar window because
sometimes the users will select the calendar by accident.  Currently, in
order to close the calendar, they must choose a date and then ...

hopefully this won't be too generic. not really sure how to explain it.
i have a fairly simple form with a subform. the subform recordsource is
a query that's updated dynamically when a user selects an item from a
list in the main form.

Is it possible to design a dabatase for CD library that will interface
with CDDB to download artist/song information?

I have a textbox on a form, and I want to make it so that there is a
single space between each letter of text.  Is there a quick way to do
this, maybe a text format I'm unaware of?  I'm pretty sure I've seen
this capability in another application, though it may have been

hyperling not working on tabbed form, when I click on it and it duplicates
the web address
and inserts the pound sign between the duplicate values. Any ideas what is
worng, it works fine in the table just not on the form.

I am using Access 2003 and i want to be able to open a Word document and
Excel document from the Switchboard in my database. i was wondering what
procedures must be carried out to make this possible.  
Can somebody help me please!

a text box named - MerchantDOB
a command button named - CmdDOBAdj
MerchantDOB may have someone's dob, like 06/02/1981.  I can't use that
format to be able to know when their bday is up, so I must convert it to

That's pretty good,.... so then are you saying that I would not need to use a
query, or... do not put any criterias into the query?