Access VBA Macro Programming

CDbl CDblconverts a value or a string to a double-precision floating point number (eight bytes) where decimal places are allowed ...

Using the object models and a programming language such as Visual Basic, it’s not difficult to develop your own Access front end ...

You can also use the predefined format names as the format string, as shown in Table 5-2. This example uses the format "Currency ...

TheFormsobject has aCountproperty that defines how many forms are open in the Access application. The properties hold the parame ...

54 Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Macro Programming Character Description Null String No formatting. 0 Digit placeholder. Displays a ...

Of course, many other properties exist, but this gives you an idea of what some properties look like. Examples of object methods ...

You can use a number of characters to create user-defined date and time formats, as listed in Table 5-5. The following is an exa ...

To see an example of this, open or create a new report (the example assumes this has been saved with the name MyReport). While i ...

A number of characters can be used to create a user-defined format Date formats, like number formats, can use sections. One sect ...

Calling Methods As explained earlier, methods effectively are subroutines based on objects that take certain actions, sometimes ...

Date Datereturns the current date in short format as defined in the Windows Control Panel: MsgBox Date Time TheTimefunction retu ...

function that has ten possible parameters even if you want to use only two of them. Consider the following example for importing ...

The following will add two weeks and return 15-Jan-03 (depending on your date format): MsgBox DateAdd ("ww",2,"1-Jan-03") The fo ...

In Access, all objects are either singular objects referenced by name or objects in a collection referenced by index or name. Co ...

Intervalis the time period based on the following table, and date is the date you want to inspect. Time Period Interval Year yyy ...

Initially, this code sets up a variablewto represent aTableDefobject. This represents the current table definition being cycled ...

DateValue This function converts a date into a value. For example, the following will return the value 37686, which is the date ...

the Object Browser for this information because it can be difficult to know what command to use next. It is also easy to make mi ...

Month Monthreturns an integer between 1 and 12, based on the date expression: Month (dateexpression) An example of adateexpressi ...

By default, the Object Browser references two separate object models. This is Access and DAO. The Access object model references ...