I have to do a lunch and learn type presentation on the differences
between spreadsheets and databases.  Any suggestions as to where I can
find some canned information?
Target audience will be a bunch of engineers and scientists that are

I connect to a database that only stores the year and weeknumber. But i need
the date of the corresponding monday.
This could be more difficult as one expect because the weekumbers might
change from country to country.

I have a macro that uses the SendKeys function to send F9 - to auto save a
record.
The Application runs perfectly on many PCs, but on one I get the following
error.

Please Help.
I have a tab control with 4 tabs.
When a tab is selected, I want to "do stuff".
I thought to just do this:

hi, how can i delete form in for example data_slave.mdb from data_main.mdb
(user should click the button in data_main.mdb)
Thank you,
NiXa

I am missing something here.  I have a pop up form (loads from the
"main form")that displays multiple command buttons.  When a user
selects a particular button, the recordset from the main form should be
updated.  Here is the code that I have written but it doesnt work.  I

greetings to all. i am new to the group and to access. I am using
access 97 to setup our clinic's database and in one of the tables I
need to be able to type in a date only in terms of the Month/Year
format? How do I do that? I can't seem to be able to find this either

I have a number of queries that pull totals from different tables.  How do I
sum the different total values from each query to get a grand total?  I
tried using a Union query like this:
SELECT cTotal As bct FROM qryCbank1

An application that I develop uses a lot of temporary tables.  I very
frequently empty the tables (using DELETE From), then fill them back up.
Anyone have comments on what effects I might expect to see on performance
and bloating by deleting the tables, then using SELECT INTO to ...

I open the "Northwind" sample data base in Access 2003. In the "Orders" form
there is a "CustomerID" combobox labeled  "Bill To".  I scroll thru the list
in the combobox and  make a selection; that changes the appropriate fields
in the displayed record. However, when I close the ...

Thanks to those who have provided solutions to previous queries......
I might be making a rod for my own back here but...... I have opened a
form when selecting a specific option from a lookup field... and this is
where i cant get past ... the field in popup form need to be inputed ...

How do you change the backgroung color and Menu bar colors in access so
that its different from he default color in windows.  This is for Access
only, I want the other programs to match the default color of windows.
Thanks

Another newbie with a question that I hope someone can point me in the right
direction.
The goal is to populate a text box with data according to the selection in a
combo box while still being able to navigate the records one by one.

Seems like I've been here before, but can't find anyting in Google.
I've got two list boxes on a form.
Seems to me like the inactive ListBox's selection rectangle should be something
like gray...otherwise, the user sees two ListBoxes, both with black selection

For reporting grades and comments about students, I use one subreport per
subject.  This includes a number of text boxes, some containing numerical
data, but one containing a textual report.  Depending on how much is
written, sometime there are three on a page, sometimes two etc.  ...