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More About This Title Access Solutions: Tips, Tricks, and Secrets fromMicrosoft Access MVPs
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- Microsoft Access is the world’s leading database system, with millions of users and hundreds of thousands of developers. The best practices, tips, and techniques in this book can turn users into power users.
- Millions of eager users make Access the most popular database system in the world
These Microsoft MVPs exploit key features in Access, providing advice on techniques for capturing, sharing and reporting Access data. - Each tip provides detailed solutions with clear instructions for implementation, and samples of all can be found on the companion Web site
Access 2010 Solutions offers professional advice that enables every Access user to get greater value from the Access database system.
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Arvin Meyer is Chief Database Architect at Data Strategies and a 10-year Microsoft MVP. He also performs Webmaster duties for The Access Web (www.mvps.org/access), the major Access FAQ resource in the world with over 35,000 hits daily. He is one of the technical editors of Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions, published by Wiley.
Douglas J. Steele has been an Access MVP since 1999. He has written about Access for Smart Access magazine, Advisor Media, and Database Journal, and is technical editor for the Access 2010 Bible, published by Wiley.
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Introduction xxi
Part I Tables 1
Tip 1 Creating Tables for Web Applications 3
Tip 2 Alternative to the Hyperlink Data Type 9
Tip 3 Fill a Table with Numbers 17
Part II Queries 23
Tip 4 A Single Query to Do Both Updates and Insertions 25
Tip 5 Using a Cartesian Product to Generate a Calendar 31
Tip 6 Using a Multiselect List Box as a Query Parameter 39
Part III Forms 55
Tip 7 Cascading Combo Boxes 57
Tip 8 Cascading Combo Boxes on Continuous Forms 65
Tip 9 Paired List Boxes 75
Tip 10 Marquees, Scrolling Messages, and Flashing Labels 89
Tip 11 Custom Tab Controls 99
Tip 12 Simulating Web-Style “Hover” Buttons 109
Tip 13 Custom Form Navigation Controls 115
Tip 14 Calendar Form 121
Tip 15 Simulating Drag-and-Drop in Access Forms 129
Tip 16 Providing Visual Feedback for Drag-and-Drop 139
Tip 17 Control List Boxes with Drag-and-Drop 149
Part IV Taking Advantage of Report Capabilities 165
Tip 18 Page 1 of N for Groups 167
Tip 19 Always Starting a Group on an Odd Page for Duplex Printing 175
Tip 20 Dynamically Changing the Sort Order of a Report 183
Tip 21 Week-at-a-Glance–Type Report 197
Tip 22 Day-at-a-Glance–Type Report 209
Part V Using VBA 221
Tip 23 Useful String Functions 223
Tip 24 Useful Functions 245
Tip 25 Relinking Front-End Databases to Back-End Databases in the Same Folder 271
Tip 26 SaveAsText and LoadFromText: Undocumented Backup and Anti-Corruption Tricks 277
Tip 27 Reminders—Building Tickler Forms and Utilities 287
Tip 28 Using Disconnected Recordsets 297
Tip 29 Implementing Soundex 311
Part VI Automating Applications and ActiveX Controls 329
Tip 30 Charting Using Excel 331
Tip 31 Using the TreeView Control 343
Tip 32 Using the ListView Control 359
Tip 33 Adding Images to the TreeView Control 383
Tip 34 Using the TreeView and ListView Controls Together 399
Part VII Access and the Web 417
Tip 35 Building an Access Web Application 419
Tip 36 Embedding a Web Control in a Form 449
Tip 37 Building a Time Picker in a Web Form: An Introduction to Web Macros 459
Tip 38 RSS Feeds 471
Tip 39 Detecting Whether You’ve Got Internet Connectivity 487
Part VIII Utilities 493
Tip 40 Drilling Down to Data 495
Tip 41 Utility for Renaming a Form’s Controls 501
Tip 42 Document Management Using Access 507
Tip 43 Ultra-Fast Searching 529
Index 539
