A2003.  I have one form for which the status bar text property for any
control does not work.  It functions as expected for all other forms.
I've copied the form over a couple of times and I still can't get the
text to display on the status bar.

I have Access XP, not the "developer's kit,"and a routine written in a form
which I use for renaming files. I know that in general you can't export an
MDB file to a self-running executable, but I'm wondering if a simple form
such as this can be exported as such--or do I need the ...

Helllo--I have implemented the audit trail from the Microsoft KB
article that records changes on a data entry form to a memo filed in
the fieeld's table record. What I would like to do is pull certain
info from that module and put it in a separate table--is this

Dear reader,
To work with linked tables is a professional method of working with a frond
end and back end mdb.
Working with linked tables on a local pc gives an acceptable performance but

OK, I have been drowning in all kinds of articles about XML lately.
The ONE thing I have not yet seen is a general discussion article
about the alleged benefits of XML, especially as it affects Access
developers.

I have asked a number of questions as a newbie trying to learn Access.
Some folks have been very helpful with very direct and simple answers
that help alot.  Others give me answers with extensive code that is
hard for a newbie to follow when the answer is quite simple after I

Hi I wonder if anyone can help? I have looked through prevous posts and
cant find any answers that fit what I need to do.  For reference I am
using Access 97 and Word 97.
I want to be able to have a client record open in a form and click a

Right now I have a client with the following:
They have a program (lets call it program A) containing around 20 tables and
queries and forms...
This program is on a server.  The company have 8 computers and each computer

I'd appreciate if anyone could point or enlighten me by saying how i
can access the tables from C (or pls send the links that i can read). I
googled a bit to find something called Jet engine database which is
used my ms-access(db manager), but i couldn't find any Jet engine

Hello I have a report that needs to printed by a specific printer
rather than the computers default printer?
Is there a way to dynamically choose a specific printer to print a
report through VBA code?

I have a simple " expense " form which has a number of dropdowns and a
field to enter the money into. The app enters data into a single table.
For some reason it just stopped working. Data is no longer being
entered into the table. Before ( yesterday) we used to get a data entry

I need to search for database text with underlines in it. However,
underlines are interpreted as wild-cards in LIKE clause text . I need
to know how to escape the underlines so as to be able to search them.
Some DB's use an "Escape" keyword and others use a back-slash to escape

how can I do to translate a pocket access database (cdb file format) to
ms-access (mdb file format)
Thank you by advance

I have 3 tables: catalogue, category and product.
In catalogue I have id (primary key) and brand name;
in category I have id(#), category_name and catalogue_id;
in product I have id(#), product_name and category_id.

I created a database not so long back but now I am offering a better version
with new features. I am having some difficulty thinking of a method to keep
the data within the database (customer details etc/tables) without resetting
any Order Numbers (AutoNumber).