Category Archives: Access Controls

We Get Letters

This month, Doug Steele passes on feedback he’s received from readers about past columns. Along the way, he shows how different priorities cause different programmers to come up with different solutions for the same problem. 1) See the Embedded quotes … Continue reading

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Validate input such as ZIP codes and postal codes

In Access Answers, Doug Steele addresses commonly asked questions from Access developers. This month, he looks at using Regular Expressions in Access, as well as problems dealing with time values . Is there a simple way to validate input such … Continue reading

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Use Classes to Enhance List and Combo Boxes

Access 97, 2003 and 2007 has support for standard class modules lets you greatly extend the functionality of standard controls. In this article, Jim shows you how to make Access unbound list and combo boxes behave more like those in … Continue reading

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Tricks With Combo Boxes

This month, Doug Steele show you how to manipulate a ComboBox to display multiple fields and how to synchronize one Combo box with another. My ComboBox displays multiple fields in it when I’ve got it dropped down, but once I … Continue reading

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Let me check my list …

Doug tries to address commonly asked questions from Access developers. This month, he looks at various ways of using the List Box control including Multi-Select, moving items between lists, using non table record sources and showing all tables in a … Continue reading

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