Help With Hyperlinking

Nov 3, 2005

Hi all,

Just looking for a bit of help with hyperlinking on a form. Basically, I am adding a 'read more' function to a quiz program I am writing.

I have a label simply called 'Read More' that sits on the form. I need to set a hyperlink to this label, that is looked up from the DB as the hyperlink changes each time the form reloads.

From a simplistic view - I have a table "tbllink", with two fields, 'ID' and 'hyperlink'.

I have tried using a simple DLookUP query as the hyperlink, but access does not recognise this as a piece of code and thinks it is the actual address of the link.

=DLookUp("[hyperlink]","tbllink","[ID] = " & [ID])

Just wandering if there is an easy way to work this?

Thanks in advance

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