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Page Length and Merging Data
Hello! I have two questions.
1. I am trying to create a database, but Access will not allow my page length to be any longer than 22". I have tried to make it increase the length, but no luck. Can this be done? I need to add another 23" worth of fields. 2. I want to take information located in an excel sheet or database and allow the user to chose a "location", upon chosing the location, it will populate "all" the fields in the access database with that information. Any suggestions on how to make this happen? Thanks so much for all your help, |
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Page Length and Merging Data
What I do is either create tabs and separate the one form into two or three
or put command buttons on my form to open other portions of the form. Larger than 22" is going to be very burdensome on the user I would think. -- Milton Purdy ACCESS State of Arkansas "txgirl" wrote: Hello! I have two questions. 1. I am trying to create a database, but Access will not allow my page length to be any longer than 22". I have tried to make it increase the length, but no luck. Can this be done? I need to add another 23" worth of fields. 2. I want to take information located in an excel sheet or database and allow the user to chose a "location", upon chosing the location, it will populate "all" the fields in the access database with that information. Any suggestions on how to make this happen? Thanks so much for all your help, |
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Page Length and Merging Data
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:11:01 -0700, txgirl
wrote: Hello! I have two questions. 1. I am trying to create a database, but Access will not allow my page length to be any longer than 22". I have tried to make it increase the length, but no luck. Can this be done? I need to add another 23" worth of fields. 2. I want to take information located in an excel sheet or database and allow the user to chose a "location", upon chosing the location, it will populate "all" the fields in the access database with that information. Any suggestions on how to make this happen? Thanks so much for all your help, WHOA!!!!! Stop right now. Relational databases are *different* from spreadsheets. Your limitation will not be the size of the form; a Form is *nothing but a window*, and is very much secondary. You're limited to 255 fields, and - in practice - anything more than thirty or so fields is an enormously wide table. If you need more fields than will fit on 44 inches high by 10 inches wide on a screen, your table will not fit this limit. Secondly, "populate all the fields" from where? Do you just want to display information pertinant to a location, or do you want to create a new record in a table? Access has a steeper learning curve than other Office apps. If you just dive in starting with Forms you'll end up very frustrated! Design a set of properly normalized tables *first*, and then work on forms (probably several tables and a form with several subforms) to fit. Take a look at some of these resources to get you started; the tutorials at the end of the list would be a good start. Jeff Conrad's resources page: http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/acc...resources.html The Access Web resources page: http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html Roger Carlson's tutorials, samples and tips: http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/ A free tutorial written by Crystal: http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html A video how-to series by Crystal: http://www.YouTube.com/user/LearnAccessByCrystal MVP Allen Browne's tutorials: http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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Page Length and Merging Data
Thanks Milton! I am a basic access user and am trying to help my husband
create something for work. I have the information on two different forms. So, will the tabs or command buttons still work? Or do you recommond another feature to move from one form to another? I really appreciate the help. - Dawn "golfinray" wrote: What I do is either create tabs and separate the one form into two or three or put command buttons on my form to open other portions of the form. Larger than 22" is going to be very burdensome on the user I would think. -- Milton Purdy ACCESS State of Arkansas "txgirl" wrote: Hello! I have two questions. 1. I am trying to create a database, but Access will not allow my page length to be any longer than 22". I have tried to make it increase the length, but no luck. Can this be done? I need to add another 23" worth of fields. 2. I want to take information located in an excel sheet or database and allow the user to chose a "location", upon chosing the location, it will populate "all" the fields in the access database with that information. Any suggestions on how to make this happen? Thanks so much for all your help, |
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