As part of the hiring process, I have to run a criminal background check on prospective employees.  Is there a way to have either a command button or some such thing that can link them directly from the dbase to a website.  All computers are dsl ready.

I have a complex database of medical information (medications, test results and the like) with hundreds of tables and queries in it and more objects being added all the time. I would like to have the description of each object shown either on the stauts bar when I highlight the ...

I was looking through the posts and was reminded of something that I saw while setting up  our database.  Somewhere I saw (on Start Upmenu?) a command of some sort to the affect of compact and repair on start up, is that a good idea.  This database will be used on terminal ...

I am trying unsuccessfully to get a report to total the number of different fields.  I would optimally like to do this on the form instead of report, but am totally lost about that one
My employees are involved in education program that I track on a table with yes/no boxes.  There ...

I am trying to set up my reports and forms to tell me how long my employees have worked for me.  I added a field that says Term Date and another that just say Today.  I can query In-Active employees to get a date, this one is easy as they have a term date listed.  How do I have ...

I am running a make table query which defaults a fields
data type to text and the field size to 255.  I would like
the field size to default to 75.  Any suggestions?
NB:  I want the field size to be set to 75 as the make

There's an unexplainable error happening when opening any of my DB in
Access 2003 under WindowsXP. My DB were  made in Access 2000 under W98.
I installed WindowsXP recently. There's no conversion going on when
trying to open it in 2003 under WindowsXP and there's an error message ...

Hi! I'm currently developing an invoicing system via
Access. This system is mainly to track what customers
order what, for how much, and to whom the invoices are
shipped to, etc. and I think what I have is a problem, or

I inherited a HUGE append table with an error in it and I'm not sure how to fix it.  The person labeled the "week" column as text, NOT as a date.  I tried going into the table to switch the property, but it says that the file is too large to convert like that.
Is there a way of ...

I am designing a database. I currently have a table for
sales, products, customers, special offers, promotion.
For sales analysis purposes I would need to know
-the product name (e.g. 250V metal halide lamp)

After opening the relationships window and
selecting "print relationships".  I get the
message "Wizard can't find any relationships to print.  
You must either define some new relationships between

I have a table that holds records for a year, then they
are moved to a history table, and the original table is
cleared for this year's records.  The primary key is an
autonumber field, how do I reset this at the end of the

I would like to know how to get Access to record me as
the author, and record the editing time. (From file,
database properties, then statistics.)
I am doing a PowerPoint presentation, and it recorded the

I have two tables.  One is an equipment listing (primary
key is the serial number), then I have another table which
is the maintenance history for the equipment.  I have a
relationship set up in a One-to-Many style with Cascading

Is there a way to repair/ compact the mdb file through VBA
code?  I am a temp and need to make this system as self
controlling as possible, as it is, a button is pressed to
do the year end clearance, there are reasons for this