Access MVP (2010-2015)

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Where’s the Cursor?

When tabbing between Controls on Forms and they contain text all the data within the Control is selected. This can be problematic as Users may inadvertently overwrite what is already there and not even realize it as they begin typing. To avoid that you can force the Cursor to land at the beginning or the […]

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Print Constant Number of Lines (or Add a Constant Number of Lines)…

This topic comes up from time to time in Forums and the answer usually involves a Temp Table or adding blank records or digging up that Microsoft® Report Utilities, How to Print a Constant Number of Lines per Group, sample which involved adding the controls you wanted to *hide* to the Function.  I thought why not make […]

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Show Quarters Between Two Dates…

Interesting question in a Forum whereby the Poster wanted a list of the Quarters between two dates. While this request doesn’t come up often when it does there’s an answer…

While you *think* you could run this in one query it’s just not possible because in order for the query to provide the answer it […]

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List Tables and Fields…

When I’m designing a database I usually start off with one of my Templates. But, as with any Template, the Tables therein do not always fit exactly with the Client’s needs. And, since I like to document changes I built this tool…

In a nutshell… After the Template database is created I import the […]

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Hide Duplicate Rows in Excel…

Last year when I was really starting to jump into exporting data to Excel I ran into an issue. I wanted the rows with duplicated data to only show the first row and hide the following rows… Conditional Formatting, right? So, why couldn’t I get what I wanted. When all else fails *Google* it! Which […]

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