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Thursday, April 28, 2011 – Permalink –

Zoom Box Fonts

Customize

Change the appearance of text in Access' Zoom box

Access' Zoom box, allows you to display the contents of a text box in a dialog box for easier editing and viewing. Although viewing long expressions is more convenient in the Zoom box, it is still sometimes difficult to follow what is displayed due to the font Access uses by default.

Access 20xx allows you to change the font that the Zoom box uses. To display the Zoom box, select the text box you want to expand and press Shift+F2. Then, just click the Font button, set the options you want, and click OK. The settings you select are used whenever you display the Zoom box during your current instance of Access. However, the next time you start Access the Zoom box font settings will revert to their defaults

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Labels: Customize, Fonts, General, Shortcuts, Tips

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Saturday, April 23, 2011 – Permalink –

Runtime and PDF

Add-in's complete

Great news, you can now redistribute and use the PDF and XPS add-in with your Runtime solution.
The Runtime's code has not been changed. Your existing runtime solutions can now officially be distributed with the PDF and XPS add-in by chaining the .msi for PDF and XPS into your install process for your app (after the Runtime).
PDF-XPS Supported

You may copy and distribute the object code form of the add-in listed below together and for use only with the Microsoft Office Access Runtime software, subject to the license terms accompanying the Microsoft Office Access 2007 Runtime software download:
2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS (located at PDF add-in download)

Runtime for Access

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Labels: Add-in, General, Runtime, Tips

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Sunday, April 17, 2011 – Permalink –

Prevent Users From Copying Field Text

Copy or select

As you know, you can set a form field's Locked property to Yes to prevent users from changing the underlying data. However, users are still able to select and copy data from the field, and you may not always want this to be the case. The solution is to also set the field's Enabled property to No.

Ordinarily, setting the Enabled property this way causes the field and its associated label to be difficult to read. However, when you set the Enabled property to No and the Locked property to Yes, the fields and labels look exactly as they do when they're enabled for normal entry. The difference is that users will be unable to select or copy any of the displayed data.

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Labels: Customize, Forms, General, Properties, Tips, Tutorials

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Thursday, April 07, 2011 – Permalink –

Total Footer

Sum() it up

If you would like to show a total in the footer or each page of a report, you may have a problem. Access does not allow the SUM() function in the footer.

The way around this is to put a SUM() function in an unbound text box in another part of the report.

Choose Properties and set the visible property of the control to No.

In the footer, create another control using the "calculation" text box as the ControlSource.

The Sum() function, as well as the other aggregate (totals) functions can reference only a field and not a control.

From the Microsoft Knowledge base:

How to Sum a Calculation in a Report

How to Display and Total Subtotals from Subreports

How to Print a Group Footer at a Specific Location

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Labels: General, Reports, Tips, Tutorials

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