However, the ActiveForm and ActiveReport properties represent the active form or report, whereas the Me property represents the form or report in which the code is running. For example, a Timer event can occur on a form called Customers, even if the Customers form isn't active. In a Timer event procedure for the Customers form, Screen. ActiveForm represents the active form, whatever it is, and Me always represents the Customers form. Using Methods Methods are built-in operations that you can perform on an object.
Many methods take one or more arguments .
An argument provides the method with additional information for its operation. The following example shows the syntax for several different methods. The OpenRecordset method creates a new Recordset object and returns a reference to the new object. You can assign this object reference to an object variable by using the Set statement. Because the OpenRecordset method returns a value, you must enclose its arguments in parentheses.