Hiding Drop Down Arrows In A Printable Form
Aug 23, 2006
Hi
I am compiling a database of my fire system 'engineers reports' by creating a form that is identical to the one that I print and give to the customer.
I used combo boxes to look up system type details, from another table, after inputting the serial number. As these combo boxes can only produce one value I hid the arrows behind background coloured rectangles.
When I print the form the arrows disappear, the combo boxes expand by the width of the arrow and the last 2 digits of right-aligned numbers disappear behind my rectangles.
This form has over 200 controls (systems types, parts used numbers and quantities etc) and I need to print it on a single sheet of paper. I cannot afford to leave extra space between my controls.
The only thing I can think of is setting the visible property of my rectangles to screen only, which is not ideal.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Mar 30, 2005
Hi,
I have a data entry form that needs to become an invoice form.
The problem I have is that the background colour prints too, tried "print data only" option, but as it says on the tin, only the data is printed.
Ideally I want the formatting, field headings, but not the background colour.
Is the only option to remove the background colour?
Or should I create a "print" button that runs a report for the selected record?
Many thanks
daz.
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ie - a contractor comes in & applies for a permit, the user (permit clerk) enters all the contractor's info into form 1 then clicks permit & enters the info for that specific permit (there are 4 types) into form 2, then clicks payment & enters check #, fee, etc. into form 3. the permit should now be issued but only needs to have permit #, contractor name, date, location, & amount paid on it. is this possible? i've tried building a query to base a report on with the with that info but am not gettin the results i want, and i don't know how to have a report display only one permit at a time. plus, my users don't want to have to run a query & then print a report. they just want to click print after entering the data (they're very lazy, set in their ways, and not very computer literate). please excuse my dumbness but the whole application is up & running except for this last part.:o please help! thanx in advance.
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If more details are needed, respond and I'll post em, but I think that about covers it
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hey, little prob for improving my database..
In a box on the form i have the date automatically entered. however it is also possible for people to change the date for say the day before or the day after.
SO what i really want is for the date to still autoset (most of the entries will be for the current day) but i also want two little arrows on the box (like standard scroll bar style) to give me whatever date in the future, or past, that i require.
at the moment this can be done manually, but i want to make it as simple as possible so no gets to befuddled!!!
cheers for the help (if anyone can)
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The keyboard arrows are good but they are normally used to navigate along a line etc.
Page Up & Down again better & often used for moving between records but do sometime need there native functions.
Trying to avoid changing the functions of these keys depending of what part fo the form I am on or current function I an doing.
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I would like to have a combo box that doesn't show the drop-down arrow when the user selects it. You say, doesn't that defeat the purpose of the combo box?
Well, look. In a form I have a datasheet (in a subform) that only displays data, so it is locked from editing. Within the datasheet is a field that contains a combo box with a row source from a linked table, and the control source of that combo box is the primary key. Essentially I'm utilizing the combo box because it is smart, and allows me to display linked data: this combo box contains two columns, and I set the first column's width to "0" so that it would only display the field I want. I didn't use a subform because, in datasheet view, subform fields are not displayed in the linear fashion I need, but instead go hide under the "+" button for each record.
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