In MS Word version 2202 (2019) I have a legacy form field (a plain text box) in a document that calculates on exit and fills a number of other fields with the result of calculations.
I'm looking for a way to use VBA to tab out of that form field and trigger the calculations. In other words, to function as if the user pressed the tab key when in the form field, exiting from the field, and triggering the calculations and filling of other fields.
I've tried the following code:
Selection.TypeText Text:=vbTab
but it doesn't work because the document is restricted from editing -- other than filling forms. This restriction prohibits this code from emulating pressing the tab key.
Thanks.
All you need after editing the field is:
ActiveDocument.Fields.Update
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I have continuous Form (part of the Main Form)
I need to create a button after pressing on which - only specific values should populate across the entire Form.
The Form tied to Category-Objective table with the following values -
My YesNoFK field has values Yes = 1, No=2
In my Form, when user will click "Comma" button I want him to see all "Yes" values auto-populated into
Complaint (it is the caption of YesNoFk field):
Please, HELP!
If everyone wants this set, have you considered setting the default value for the compliant combo box in the table design?
I'm setting the control source of text fields to return the value of a function (multiple fields with different filtering conditions). The form has a combo box with a list of years: when the user selects a specific year, the on change event triggers a refresh of all the fields.
My problem is the fields don't show any values unless after combo box's On Change events. I have to click on the form/fields before the values start showing up.
I tried to do form refresh & field's requery but doesn't work.
The text field's Control Source is set to:
=SummaryReport("Projects","G","1",[Forms]![frmSUMMARY_REPORT]![cmbYEARS])
What I'm trying to do is when the user selects a year from a drop down, the fields values are updated & displayed by the On Change event - currently they seem to be updated but are not showing unless I click on the screen and that's when values start showing up in each field.
The method to update calculated fields is Me.Recalc (or myForm.Recalc):
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/access.form.recalc
Try this instead of .Refresh.
Also I think the better event to use is After Update instead of On Change for a combo box.
I have a continuous form which displays a small amount of data from each record in my table ProjectT (i.e. project name, status) and a command button in the footer which I would like to open the selected record in its expanded single form (where all of the relevant info is displayed).
At first I set this button up using Access's wizard, but realized that Access opens a selected record by filtering the data on the form. The problem with this is that once the expanded form is opened, I want a user to be able to move to other records without having to select to unfilter the results. If I change the button on my continuous form to simply open the expanded single form, is there code I can run to make the form open to the selected record without putting a filter on?
Initially I thought to set the expanded form's (named ProjectF) default value to Forms!ProjectListF!ProjectID (where ProjectListF is the continuous form and ProjectID is the autonumber primary key for ProjectT), but this was not successful, I think because there is more than one ProjectID displayed on ProjectListF.
Another thing to consider is that I have another button on my Main Menu form which opens the ProjectF form in data entry mode to prevent the user inadvertently changing/deleting an existing record when they are trying to add a new one; I have no idea if this might be important when trying to find a solution to my issue.
I'm open to any suggestion--I have an okay handle on SQL, and have delved into a little VBA but am completely self taught. Any ideas? Thanks!
You can open the detailed form with this command:
DoCmd.OpenForm "ProjectF", , , "[ProjectID] = " & Me!ProjectID.Value & ""
Having converted a number of fields in a table tblSource to Rich Text memos, I'm getting an error 3188 in the following circumstances.
Main form has a subform open (frmSource) bound to qrySource. qrySource pulls in some fields from tblSource and adds a calculated field which concatenates the (newly-minted) rich-text memo fields (SD1 to SD20) so that the result can be displayed in a single text box on frmSource called Citation.
If the user wishes to edit SD1 to SD20, they double-click on the Citation field and a modal form frmCitation opens up displaying the SD fields for editing. frmCitation is bound to qryCitation which pulls the SD fields and a couple of others out of tblSource. When finished, they close frmCitation. When SD1 etc were text fields, the tblSource record was updated successfully. However, now they're memo fields, I'm hitting VBA error 3188 ("Could not update; currently locked by another session on this machine.").
Searching on the Internet suggests that this is a common issue with Rich Text memos when a memo size exceeds 2k (limitation possibly due to Access edit buffer size?), so I'm looking for ways to work around it.
One option would be be to split tblSource into two tables tblSource and tblCItation with a one-to-one relationship between them, then base qrySource on tblSource and qryCitation on tblCitation, but that's fairly major surgery with knock-on effects in a number of other places in the application.
Another option is to limit the size of all the memo fields on this form (as per Rich text input into limited length text field in Access 2010), but there's one field for which that wouldn't be acceptable to the users.
Is there another technique I could explore?
Per the following MS Link: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-access/memo-field-could-not-update-currently-locked-by/d5c8163a-7ce5-484f-80d4-98c1a8c92160
near the bottom, they suggest the limit is 2,000 characters.
Not that it helps, but could you add code to the 'before update' to display what the new size should be wnen concatenated? May help to figure a solution...
Be sure to save the form before making any changes with:
If Me.Dirty Then Me.Dirty = False
Workaround 1: Try to update not a field of an underlaying query or table, but a field of the form's Recordset. For example:
With Me.Recordset
.Edit
!MemoField = "TEXT ADDED HERE <- " & !MemoField
.Update
End With
Workaround 2: If you need to update not form's Recordset, but any other Recordset, try to unbind the TexBox, make the update and then make the TextBox binded back again.
I had the same issue and I closed all other open tabs (tables, etc...) and tried again. That worked fine.
I had this problem years ago & was revisiting in case it as not an issue anymore, but seems it is.
I had a list/column form of emails inc a field with a large rft memo.
I wanted to click on a record to bring up the one email in single form
The only way I could get it to work was Open the Single form & immediately close the multi row form, on exiting the single had to load the list again using bookmarks etc. to return to where I wanted to be, a real pain.
Especially as like now I would like to be able to access the the list whilst still on the single form, hence the revisit, instead looks like I will have to save all the list'id somehow. Dooable but a lot more programming that I think should be necessary.
Code in Form onLoad:
country_combo.RowSourceType = "Value List"
Code in a reset function:
Dim lListIndex As Long
With Me.country_combo
For lListIndex = .ListCount - 1 To 0 Step -1
.RemoveItem (lListIndex)
Next lListIndex<br/>
End With
Code to populate country combo:
*For n = 1 To numCountries*
*countryCombo.AddItem (countryRS.Fields("countryName"))*
*countryRS.MoveNext*
*Next n*
I'm having a problem that occurs AFTER the code to populate the country combobox runs. The values are there as I can run Debug.Print(countryCombo.Value) and it prints out the name of the selected country, but I can't see the values in the combobox at all. They're invisible, and as far as I know there is no visiblity property for specific items, unless I'm completely mistaken.
comboBoxError.png http://img110.imageshack.us/my.php?image=comboboxerror.png
I think you should probably use Access's GUI tools to do what you're looking for. In design mode, click on the field you are trying to populate, then click the "lookup" tab. You can then specify a table to populate the field with and your forms should automaticly update as well.
I've also seen what you describe here - as far as I can tell, it's a bug within Access (I was using 2007) that only occurs when you programatically mess with the contents of a combo box. It does not happen every time. The issue corrects itself if you highlight the text that is in the combo box.
I am experiencing a similar issue with Access 2003. Based on the selection of one combo box, the row source of a listbox is set to an SQL string Basically a SELECT DISTINCT [MyField_Selected] FROM MyTable. For some fields the values are visible in the list box and others it is not. The values are there however as I can access them via code. To make it more interesting it works fine in Access 2007.
Just found the resolution on another forum. Check the format property of the field(s) in question on the table. In my case, when Access 2007 created the table, it put an # format in there. I removed that and all works great!