Adding User Help To A Form
Sep 30, 2004
Newbie here.
I would like to add some text help describing what the fields in an Access form mean. Under "Help" it mentions a What's This button which can be found in the properties box under design view. I have been unable to find any "What's This" fields in the property box. Can anyone point me to this?
Also, I saw that I could create a rich text file to be displayed when a user presses the F1 key. Can this just be an HTML file? It mentions needing to compile the .rtf file. How does one compile this?
Any insightful comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
G
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Feb 8, 2007
I use a database that someone else set up and is no longer here. To get access to the database you need to enter a user id and password. I have a new user who has been getting into the database using an established user's id and password.
I went into the file and found the table with the users, their id's and passwords listed, and added the new person to the table, but I still get an invalid user message when trying to access the database with the new user's information.
I went through the Access Help and tried a couple things it said for adding users to a password protected database, but either I didn't do it right, or the way to add a user is different from what I am getting from Access Help.
Lastly, this database is different in that if I would add a report, it only shows up on my computer when I access the database, the report doesn't show up on anyone else's. That is odd to me, but it is how it works.
Thank you for any help you can give.
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Greetings,
I have a form that contains an unbound listbox that is populated from a table. The user selects multiple records in the listbox and then clicks on a "Commit" button. The "Commit" button then copies portions of the records to another table. (And now that I am analyzing the flow of data, I realize that not all the data needs to be copied over, but I'll fix that at a later time).
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At the <<Here>> point, I would like to proc a single dialog box the query the user for some additional information - 2 items from comboboxes and one is a yes/no. Is there a way to gather the info so I can insert the values into the INSERT string?
Thanks.
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Regards
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