I have to develop a software that allows users to print data from a GUI. The GUI is a form containing several fields: the user can choose only the fileds he wants to print (I thought to a checkbox to choose the needed fields)
For each field the user can specify: font, x,y coordinate to locate it into the label to be printed
The user can decide also the format (height,width dimensions) of the label
I imagine that the great difficulties is to find the function to create the string to sent to the printer....
I have an Access database that includes a customer listing. My client would like me to include a button on a form that prints off all of their customers' names and addresses onto mailing labels. I know how to do it manually by clicking on the Customers table, clicking Labels under the Create ribbon, selecting the fields, selecting the label manufacturer, size, etc. etc., but the customer would prefer to have just one single button.
I've looked everywhere for VBA code to put into a macro that does this. Unfortunately, unlike Excel, Access doesn't have a "Record Macro" option so I can attach it to the button.
Table: Customers Fields: FirstName LastName Address City State Zip (There are other fields, but they are not relevant to printing address labels)
I need to print a contiguous subset of records from a table, not the whole table. I'm using a standard Avery #5349 label page, but need to print them in a vertical orientation (2 1/3" wide x 3 3/8" high; 4 across w/2 down), so I have to create a custom landscape label to print on regular 8 1/2" x 11" paper, but defined as landscape 11" x 8.5". When I do Print Preview, and orient the printer to Landscape, the Print Preview still shows Portrait, so I'm losing labels off the right side of the screen.
I know I can export the table to an Excel spreadsheet (to be used by Word's label print functions); the custom label page definition there is correct, and the labels print correctly. But I'm trying to simplify the whole operation by printing the labels from Access.
1. When designing the Access custom label definition, the Edit Label page graphic doesn't reorient and redimension the labels' layout as I enter each label dimension (as it does in Word), so I'm not sure which dimensions are correct (I've tried both ways). When I go for the Print Preview (and specify that the printer is to honor Landscape mode), I'm told that the dimensions won't fit on the page .. and I've seen the messages that say to ignore this if printing multiple labels .. "it'll probably print OK." Do I just (in my mind) rotate the graphic 90 and enter the measurements as I do in Word?
2. I haven't gotten to this point in Access yet: can I format each field differently (font, size) in the 1st label, then replicate that label's design across all (as in Word), then fill with data from the table?
3. I'm a DB lightweight .. how to select a range of records from a table to print to the labels? I don't want to print the whole thing.
4. Similar to #3: if I decide to export a table to a spreadsheet for input to Word, how to export just a range of records? I've been exporting the whole table, then editing the spreadsheet to delete the unwanted records, before inputting it as the Recipient List to Word's label print functions.
I'm trying to develop the necessary techniques at home on my Windows 7, Office 2010 platform. When I get it all figured out, I'll try to implement it on the target platform: my church's XP Office 2007 environment.
Hi all,I've been struggling with this for a few hours... I sure hope that the solution to my problem is complicated so I don't feel really dumb!I'm trying to design a database to eliminate the HOURS that my mom spends trying to format mailing labels in Word. She deals with about 50 clients at a time, and sometimes needs to print labels for just a selection of them, but not all. I'd like to design a form where she can select (using an option button or similar) the clients for whom she wants to print a label, and print them all at the same time (rather than printing one at a time, which I can handle on my own). Creating mailing labels will be the only function of the db so the info stored in it will be relatively simple.I have the Northwinds db installed, and I've found the sample Macro controlling the Where condition for the labels report. I understand how to make it work for a single selection from a combo box (ie: only print labels for customers from a specific country)I have my report set up so it shows a label for each client, pulling data directly from the main table. No troubles with formatting. **knocks on wood**My problems:1. I searched this site and found a link to the MS KB file that outlines how to print multiples of one label or skip used labels before starting to print (Q95806 - "How to Skip Used Mailing Labels and Print Duplicates"). I'd like to use this, but can't make it work.2. I can't figure out how to "link" the option button to the client name as it's listed in the form, and then tell the report to only print labels for the selected clients.I have very little coding experience but I can make some simple code work and am OK at customizing pre-written code to my own needs if it's well commented, so VB isn't entirely out as an option.I have a possible solution in mind that involves creating a query that makes a new table with only the selected clients, which is then used to make the labels report. I think I could make that work if I could just figure out how to select the clients in the first place.I apologize in advance if this has been taken care of elsewhere. I tried to find it, but had trouble coming up with the right search string!Thanks in advance,~ Mel ~p.s. I'm using Access 2000.
I am using access 2010 and have made a simple database for the company I work for. This consists of the a table of the raw data and a form to make the data printable.
I have been asked by our admin person if I can make it possible to be able to print labels from it. I know it is possible via the wizard but very limited.
What we really need is to be able to select the people from the table that we want labels for.
I have added a true/false check box to the table called 'label?'
I am having a problem setting the margins to print labels in access. I go to page setup and change the margin size click ok and nothing happens to the label and when I go back to page setup the margins have returned to their original values. I have already selected the label printer and labels that im using.So im baffled as to why it wont accept margin values that don't cause the label to be printed over 3 labels.
I have a form where I'd like to create a button to print labels from a labeling program called Label Matrix. I already have the label set up in Label Matrix to draw info from the Access table, and I know how to create a button. I can't figure out how I would make the button print the label.
I have always noticed that when creating a report, when you make a paragraph using a label, the alignment and size of the text/paragraph is always different when you preview the report than when you design it.
This makes alignment of paragraphs tricky, especially when you are trying to insert a bold faced word into the middle of a block of text by using a separate label.
I posted this about a month ago, but at that time I was running myself ragged and through too many problems at once. I stepped back and made some good progess. I put this in the General forum because it could encompass VBA, queries, and reports
I have a main report (Percentage Report) that has 4 subreports in it. Each subreport is based on a query that's run from three other queries. Its a neatly tangled mess, but it works fine.
The queries all count and calculate percentages for a pass rate of inspections on maintenance. There's an over-all/basic percentage that simply totals everything and divides for a percentage. There's also a "maintenance" percentage that only takes into account inspections done on maintenance (as opposed to various programs and processes.) Those both work fine for any given time period.
The third (and final) percentage deducts 0.5 points for each of a specific list of inspections (safety and other violations.) This works fine so long as you're only looking at a month's worth of data. The problem comes when you want to view any time period larger than that (quarter, semi-annual, annual.)
Basically, you end up subtracting a sum from an average and you end up w/ totally inaccurate numbers. I just can't quite figure out how to effectively either group by month or how to average the deductions based on the months covered.
I just finished completing this whole thing, and I'm pretty much done for tonight. Any help would be great. ---------------------------------------- Key words: sum totals, report grouping, report conditional format, alternate row colors (greenbar), count, calculate, percent
I am trying to develop a query in MS Access 2010 to join two tables using three joins one of which is a (between) date range. The tables are contained in Access.
ABCPART links to XYZPART. ABCSERIAL links to XYZSERIAL. ABCDATE links to (between) XYZDATE1 and ZYZDATE2. [ABCTABLE] ABCORDER ABCPART
I have a form which my company wanted that each single record should be printed from form. I made a print record button and put code to print single page or record. However as a natural habit people go to file > print to print which leads printing all records so 1000's records start printing. Is there any way i can hide print button. File >Print button.
I have an unbound form with an associated report. When the user hits the 'print' button on the form/screen, the report is launched in the background. In the On Load event of the report I populate the report fields from the forms field as so:
This works like a charm as long as I call the report in Print Preview mode (i.e. with acViewPreview). But if I send the report directly to the printer, none of the fields print.
I've read about using other report events to populate the fields (e.g., On Format and On Print) and also something about using TempVars to pass the data. But I haven't read anything that's clear and definitive about the full answer.
I have a field in my database that list the number of personnel folders a person has, I would like to print labels for each folder for that person. For example, if a person has 4 folders I would like to print 4 of the same label at once by clicking the command button I have set up to print the label. The default is set to 1 label but I need the number of labels to change according to the number of folders listed. Can this be done and if so how?I will be using Avery 4031-20 labels
Have an address list with over 600 names, and I need to create mailing labels.
Have First Name, Last Name fields, with city, state zip. BUT...
There is also a field called SPOUSE. This field is NOT always populated.
I need a query that I'll use to create the mailing labels that will;
Have the FIRST NAME SPOUSE NAME LAST NAME
If the SPOUSE field is blank, I need the query to filter that out, so that the address lable will only show First Name and Last Name, without a blank space in between.
Also need the query to put the '&' sign in IF there is a spouse.
Uh, hi. I'm new to using access, and I'm wondering if its possible to display an autonumber at the top of a form in a label box. For example, if I had a field set to autonumber and was ading a new record to the database, could I display the autonumber field on the actual form?
Does anyone know of an example (code or DB) where someone used labels as buttons? The labels should have special effects when mouse overed, clicked, etc. Also, it should have code that resets button state and checks button state. Any help would be great!!!
Is it possible to change the format of the mailing labels once the report has been created? I have one that has 24 labels on it, but I need for it to have 30. Also I can't remember how I created it in the first place. What steps do I need to go through to make a new report?
creating mailing labels starting with an Excel Workbook imported into Access. When I get to the point of previewing the labels, there seem to be maybe 10 blank labels. I don't have a clue how this could happen but I obviously don't want to waste the ten or so labels (out of about 90 total). setting the print area and removing empty Worksheets, but nothing works.
I have created a report for labels using the Label Wizard, and found the code on the MS KB about skipping the labels that have already been used, and printing on the next one along.
Page on MS KB (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=299024)
When I try using this code in Access 2003 however, it seems to go into some sort of loop, and produces 100+ pages for the report when I try and skip 1 label for example. Can anyone help me get this working for 2003?
Here's my module code, same as on the site above:
'************************************************* ******** 'Declarations section of the module. '************************************************* ******** Option Compare Database Option Explicit Dim LabelBlanks& Dim LabelCopies& Dim BlankCount& DimCopyCount& '================================================= ======== ' The following function will cause an input box to ' display when the report is run that prompts the user ' for the number of used labels to skip and how many ' copies of each label should be printed. '================================================= ======== Function LabelSetup() LabelBlanks& = Val(InputBox$("Enter number of used labels to skip")) LabelCopies& = Val(InputBox$("Enter number of copies to print")) If LabelBlanks& < 0 Then LabelBlanks& = 0 If LabelCopies& < 1 Then LabelCopies& = 1 End Function '================================================= ======== ' The following function sets the variables to a zero '================================================= ======== Function LabelInitialize() BlankCount& = 0 CopyCount& = 0 End Function '================================================= ======== ' The following function is the main part of this code ' that allows the labels to print as the user desires. '================================================= ======== Function LabelLayout(R As Report) If BlankCount& < LabelBlanks& Then R.NextRecord = False R.PrintSection = False BlankCount& = BlankCount& + 1 Else If CopyCount& < (LabelCopies& - 1) Then R.NextRecord = False CopyCount& = CopyCount& + 1 Else CopyCount& = 0 End If End If End Function
