This may seem like a daft question but I would like help in sprucing up the
look of a form.
How do I send an object to the back? eg. If I want to have a box around some
fields, I have to make it transparent or it will block out everything

hello group.
I use alot of combo boxes to input data on forms.  All my combo boxes record
source are linked to dedicated dropdown  table's.
The tables are all set up with an Autonum Primary Key field and a

I am using Windows 2000, with Access 2000. I would like to know is it
possible to have a drop down box on a form that has for example a selection
of A, B, C, or D then in another drop down box next to it have a list that
corresponds with each particular letter.

Using Access2003, we need to send out a file to each office. They input 5
fields which then generates (calculates) a special code.
Whilst we are not concerned at the number of staff that will have access to
the database...we do need to protect the formula that generates the special

cant open my email foler in outlook.  wht shall i do??

Along time age I had a database that I used to access that used linked
tables and I was able to convert the the unix time value to a date/time
format but since upgrading to Access 2003 I have not been able to do this.
Can anyone provide some assistance?

Hi.  I am very new to Access and I hope I can state my question in a clear
way.  I am trying to combine information on several different businesses and
then create a summary of each- one business per page.  I want the name of the
business, address, phone, fax, contact person and ...

I have a table with four fields:-
RefNo - autonumber
Project RefNo - The customers ref. no
TimeWorked - Although called "time" it is in amounts of .25, so 1hour 25mins

Using Access XP on Win2k.
Note:  I am NOT a programmer!!! I am mildly familiar with programming (trace
memories of java from 4 years ago) and not an avid user of Access.
My query is simple- I want an access TABLE to automatically calculate the

Hi all, I have a question on how to create a relationship between two tables
in order to match individual records in one table to multiple records of
another table. Basically, I need to combine two tables to create one ouput
table. The first table (Table 1) looks like this... ...

I am running windows 2000 and Office 2000
After we have update our windows to the lates patches and Office , we can
not import data into MS Access.
We use New Table, Import Table

Hello I have a database with 1.500.000 records. The problem is that when I
want to filter (find a name or any other filter) it takes..for ever to see
the results of the filter.
Is my database too big? Is there anything I can do than just wait for

I have been trying to export data from a linked ODBC table into an access
table. The only problem is that my source table has around 280,000 records in
it, and when I try exporting it, I get an awful lot of "Rows dropped due to
worksheet row limit" messages - a whole table full ...

I would like to have a box to enter a  [ xxxx 123 ]  afew letter with numbers
and have it go in columns..... i have Excel & Word
aa   1 26
aab 1 23

Hi Guy's i am using access 2003,  on my form ,i have
textboxs and comboboxes, if there is an entry in one
special text box, i want to disallow entry in the combobox
, and vices\versa ,