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system: You are Virgil Garness, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Lama Bader about "RE: Crosstab query".

They wrote:
->   Is it possible to store the results of a crosstab query into a table?,
-> if so then how?.

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assistant: Hi Lama,
Make a new query that uses the first query as its source, then change
this new query to a Make or Create Table Query.  YOu might also want it
updated (the table) before it is used by addaing it to a macro or
autoexec macro in the database startup.
Hole this helps.
Later.....
system: You are Luk Tutenel, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Lama Bader about "Crosstab query".

They wrote:
LB>   Is it possible to store the results of a crosstab query into a table?,
LB> if so then how?.
=> click "To an external file"
=> Select in "Save As type" :  Microsoft Excel
=> Select "Import" and follow the wizard)

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assistant: Hallo Lama,
I only know of an indirect way :
    Open your Crosstab Query
    Menu  "File" - "SaveAs/Export"
                       (I prefer as Excel version 4)
    Menu "File" - "Get External Data"
                   (or select "Link" if you want to keep the XLS-file)
Regards,
-=<Luk>=-
system: You are Lama Bader, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Don Bomer about "Crosstab query".

They wrote:
DB>Sure Can, just make a new "Make Table Query" with the CrossTab Query as
DB>the source.  When you execute the second query it will first run  the
DB>crosstab and use the result in the new table...

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assistant: Hi...
Thanks, it did work so that's one problem solved. Another one I'm
facing now.. is how to store the results of a union query between two
CrossTab Queries into a table?.
BTW I'm using MS Access Ver.2 Arabic edition.
Regards.
system: You are Lama Bader, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Virgil Garness about "Crosstab query".

They wrote:
VG>Make a new query that uses the first query as its source, then change
VG>this new query to a Make or Create Table Query.  YOu might also want it
VG>updated (the table) before it is used by addaing it to a macro or
VG>autoexec macro in the database startup.

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assistant: Hi...
It is so obvious that I'm ashamed of myself.
I appreciated the help, so then how do you store the results of a union
query between two CrossTab Queries into a table?.
BTW I'm using MS Access Ver.2 Arabic edition.
Regards.
system: You are Don Bomer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Lama Bader about "Crosstab query".

They wrote:
LB>Thanks, it did work so that's one problem solved. Another one I'm
LB>facing now.. is how to store the results of a union query between two
LB>CrossTab Queries into a table?.
LB>BTW I'm using MS Access Ver.2 Arabic edition.

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assistant: Hi,
Should work the same way, use the Union Query as source for the Make
Table Query, No?
You should upgrade when you can.  I started with Access 1, upgraded to
1.1, then 2.  Skipped 95 and went for 97.  There are so many new and
easier ways to do things in 97!!!
Many are using the Arabic version on my LAN at work.  They can read my
files just fine, But apparently when there is a field name in Arabic it
renders the database unreadable to the English version :-(
system: You are Wayne Mitchell, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Fred Hicks about "Re: Updating".

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assistant: Just append them to the end of the table, then query the table for duplicates
(dups in all fields).  Write a bit of code to delete each other one.  That
takes care of the bulk of the dups.  I guess it would probably be easiest to
do the balance by inspection in a query that selects dups on name or unique
id.
system: You are Don Bomer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Lama Bader about "Crosstab query".

They wrote:
LB>DB>Should work the same way, use the Union Query as source for the
LB>DB>Make Table Query, No?
LB>Yes, but the Make Table Query will delete the table if it already
LB>exists before re-creating it, I don't want that to happen since I
LB>have some data that I want to keep. is their any other way to do it?.
LB>DB>You should upgrade when you can.  I started with Access 1,
LB>If it was my choice then I'll do it but alas it is not.
LB>DB>Many are using the Arabic version on my LAN at work.  They can
LB>Thank God then that I use English names for the fields. I'm facing
LB>another problem when mixing Arabic letters with numbers for text
LB>fields, the order when I enter the letters and numbers gets mixed up,
LB>something to do with how Arabic letters are mapped I think, I have to
LB>insert spaces between them to reserve the order. Have you faced that
LB>problem? and do you have a solution for it?.

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assistant: Hi,
No, just save it to a different table name.  Mafi Muskala...
Understand, maybe you can convince them of enhanced productivity???
Thank God no! If someone wants me to help them with something then they
must switch to the English interface.  If I can't read it, I can't help.
I don't care what is in the fields as long as the interface is readable.
Good luck...Don
system: You are Lama Bader, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Don Bomer about "Crosstab query".

They wrote:
DB>No, just save it to a different table name.  Mafi Muskala...
DB>Thank God no! If someone wants me to help them with something then they
DB>must switch to the English interface.  If I can't read it, I can't help.
DB>I don't care what is in the fields as long as the interface is readable.

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assistant: Hi...
And we are back to where we started. Actually I solved the problem by
writing a procedure to do the calculations and store the results
directly into the table, I was just seeking other options :).
I use the English interface too and since you brought the subject, I
have another problem with error messages. I have to translate them to
Arabic, so far I have been successful except with one. When I open a
report and the system resources are not enough, the message 'Not enough
resources to update display' is displayed and the report is closed. Do you
know how I can display an Arabic translation of this message?..
Regards.
system: You are Lama Bader, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Luk Tutenel about "Crosstab query".

They wrote:
LT> LB>   Is it possible to store the results of a crosstab query into a
LT> LB> if so then how?.
LT>I only know of an indirect way :
LT>    Open your Crosstab Query
LT>    Menu  "File" - "SaveAs/Export"
LT>                => click "To an external file"
LT>                => Select in "Save As type" :  Microsoft Excel
LT>                       (I prefer as Excel version 4)
LT>    Menu "File" - "Get External Data"
LT>                => Select "Import" and follow the wizard)
LT>                   (or select "Link" if you want to keep the XLS-file)

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assistant: Hi Luke,
table?,
Thanks but someone already suggested that I use the Make Table Query.
Regards.
system: You are Lama Bader, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Don Bomer about "Crosstab query".

They wrote:
DB>Should work the same way, use the Union Query as source for the Make
DB>Table Query, No?
DB>You should upgrade when you can.  I started with Access 1, upgraded to
DB>1.1, then 2.  Skipped 95 and went for 97.  There are so many new and
DB>easier ways to do things in 97!!!
DB>Many are using the Arabic version on my LAN at work.  They can read my
DB>files just fine, But apparently when there is a field name in Arabic it
DB>renders the database unreadable to the English version :-(

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assistant: Hi...
Yes, but the Make Table Query will delete the table if it already
exists before re-creating it, I don't want that to happen since I
have some data that I want to keep. is their any other way to do it?.
If it was my choice then I'll do it but alas it is not.
Thank God then that I use English names for the fields. I'm facing
another problem when mixing Arabic letters with numbers for text fields,
the order when I enter the letters and numbers gets mixed up, something
to do with how Arabic letters are mapped I think, I have to insert
spaces between them to reserve the order. Have you faced that problem?
and do you have a solution for it?.
With best regards.
system: You are David Blum, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Time".

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assistant: Hello All!
   I am working on s database where I have to calculate time.  What I have is
a starting time and a ending time of which could be any part of the day.  Say
I start at 06:00 and end at 16:00 this is fine ..... BUT ...... what if I
start at 16:00 and end at 06:00 this just the reverse of the first one.  How
do I make the equation to do this for both also how do I include the midnite
rolover.  I'm kinda new at this so any and all help would be appreciated.
Good Bye & Good Luck,
           Dave
system: You are Kai Strang, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Christopher Greaves about "Time".

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assistant: On 04 Apr 98  09:44:00 Christopher Greaves wrote to David Blum regarding
<Time>
Hi Christopher, hi David
though Christophers way to solve the problem works (and is a very general,
language-independent approach to it), when you are using Access (or VBA in
general), the solution is much easier.
VBA/Access store date/time values as double precision floating point numbers
(double data type), where the integer part is the day (day 1 is Dec 31, 1899)
and the part behind the decimal point is the part of the day, therefore a
time value.
The time "04/06/1998 12:00:00" (dd/mm/yyyy) is stored internally as 35891.5
Also, you can easily subtract date/time values from each other, yielding a
double result that has the same meaning as a date/time value itself.
You can retrieve the current system time ny calling the Now() function.
So if you want to calculate the duration of an operation, do something like
this:
<---------------------cut here-------------------->
Dim dtmT1 as Date
Dim dtmT2 as Date
Dim dblDu as Double
dtmT1 = Now()
[...
do anything here that you want to time
...]
dtmT2 = Now()
dblDu = dtmT2 - dtmT1
Debug.Print "Elapsed:" & CLng(dblDu) & " days, " & Format$(dblDu, "hh:nn:ss")
Debug.Print "Numeric:" & dblDu
<---------------------cut here-------------------->
Note:
Use the "Variant" data type instead of the "Date" data type for Access 2.0,
it yields the same results.
This makes it pretty easy I hope.
Have Fun
system: You are Vern Benish, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Help".

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assistant: Hi out there!
I could really use some help!
I'm having problems with my com ports, IRQ's and addressing.
I have MSD (Microsoft Diagnostics) and Norton Utils, so I can get
a list of what the interupts, ports and addresses are SUPPOSED to
be, but they never recognize, or at least don't list the modem.
I've also been trying to get a scanner installed, but the software
keeps giving me an error msg that there are no ports available.
In the list that MSD and Norton makes, there are several IRQ's and
address that say "reserved for Dos", or "reserved for BIOS", or even
just plain "reserved".  Is there some way of finding out what IRQ
and address would be best to use, OTHER than the installation
software's recommendation???
I'm currently running Windows 3.1.  Supposedly, Windows '95 handles
port addressing better, but I can't afford it right now, unless
there's somebody out there that has changed over to a different OS
and wants to sell their Windows '95 for cheap???
system: You are Ruth Guerne, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Vern Benish about "Help".

They wrote:
VB> Hi out there!
VB> I could really use some help!
VB> I'm having problems with my com ports, IRQ's and addressing.
VB> I have MSD (Microsoft Diagnostics) and Norton Utils, so I can get
VB> a list of what the interupts, ports and addresses are SUPPOSED to
VB> be, but they never recognize, or at least don't list the modem.
VB> I've also been trying to get a scanner installed, but the software
VB> keeps giving me an error msg that there are no ports available.
VB> In the list that MSD and Norton makes, there are several IRQ's and
VB> address that say "reserved for Dos", or "reserved for BIOS", or even
VB> just plain "reserved".  Is there some way of finding out what IRQ
VB> and address would be best to use, OTHER than the installation
VB> software's recommendation???
VB> I'm currently running Windows 3.1.  Supposedly, Windows '95 handles
VB> port addressing better, but I can't afford it right now, unless
VB> there's somebody out there that has changed over to a different OS
VB> and wants to sell their Windows '95 for cheap???

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assistant: On Apr 15, 1998 02:00pm, VERN BENISH wrote to ALL:
 Hello,
 Maybe posting this in the right conference will get you a right response to
 your problem. If your system is carrying Fido Tech or probably Fido Win95,
 try posting it there. This conference I think, is for Microsoft Access
 program which is a database program part of MsOffice Suite.
system: You are Lila Godel, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Case Stament".

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assistant: In order to simplify some Access 97 code as I would like I need a case
statement which will return true when a string is not a number 1 through
11.  I tried using the following in my form's open event
Case ""
     'user pressed enter without entering anything in inputbox
     DoCmd.Close
     End
case is not 1 to 11
        'Not 1 To 11
        display_error_message (tape2)
        GoTo start 're display input box
     End If
End Select
and
Case ""
     'user pressed enter without entering anything in inputbox
     DoCmd.Close
     End
Case Is < 1 Or tape > 11
        'Not 1 To 11
        display_error_message (tape2)
        GoTo start 're display input box
     End If
End Select
Presently I must use
Select Case tape
Case ""
     'user pressed enter without entering anything in inputbox
     DoCmd.Close
     End
Case Else
     If tape < 1 Or tape > 11 Then
        'Not 1 To 11
        display_error_message (tape2)
        GoTo start 're display input box
     End If
End Select
Prior to this
On Error GoTo error_handler
tape = Int(tape) 'remove decimal portion if number
is executed so tape will contain an integer if the user enters a decimal
(i.e. 11.5).
Without this entered decimals that represent a number 1
through 11 (i.e 11.0) will be treated as ok input resulting in an
invalid form record source.
The error handler performs a resume next if err.number =
13 (type mismatch.
system: You are Fred Hicks, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Varibles".

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assistant: Hi ALL!
I have a problem I hope someone can solve
I have a data base of file labels.  (names, address, etc codes etc)
At times I wish to print only certain labels, while other times I wish to
print say a sheet of labels (20 or more).  An autonumber field was added to
the data base so each label automically has it own unique number.
In the form view for adding the data, I want the choice to of printing one or
more labels thru a prepared report format which would use a query form as its
filter.  In the query design, put a statement in the 'criteria' field
something like this:
between 'x' and 'y'
where x and y are varibles which can be entered in two fields in the Data
entry form.
On the bottom of the form view would be a field (maybe combo box etc) which
would state
Start printing at lable #___   Finish printing and lable #___
                          ^ x field                        ^ y field
There would also be a command button to print the report (using the above
query)
I am using Access97.   How do I set up the varibles in the "form" so the
query 'criteria' field would use them correctly..??
Any info would be appreciated.
           Fred
system: You are Mack Stead, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Fred Hicks about "Varibles7'4b".

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assistant: i mite be able to help you i used to be part of the sierra bravo cb club
system: You are Fred Hicks, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mack Stead about "Varibles7'4b".

They wrote:
MS> i mite be able to help you i used to be part of the sierra
MS> bravo cb club

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assistant: Mack Stead elucidated in a message to Fred Hicks:
ok, your on...:)
How do I do it..??
73,
           Fred
system: You are Anje Grooten, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michel Vanderbeke about "Problem in Access Visual Basic".

They wrote:
MV> If Len(telephone) > 0 Then
MV>         If Left$(telephone, 2) = "00" Then
MV>             telephone.Format = "@@ @@ @@ @@@ @@ @@"
MV>         ElseIf Left$(telephone, 2) = "02" Or "03" Or
MV> "09" Then
MV>             telephone.Format = "@@/@@@ @@ @@"
MV>         ElseIf Left$(telephone, 3) = "050" Or "051" Or
MV> "059" Then
MV>             telephone.Format = "@@@/@@ @@ @@"
MV>         ElseIf Left$(telephone, 4) = "0800" Or "0900"
MV> Then
MV>             telephone.Format = "@@@@/@@@ @@"
MV>         End If
MV> Else
MV>         telephone.Visible = False
MV> End If

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assistant: Haidi Michel,
Op 31 May 22:33, 1998, schreef Michel Vanderbeke (2:291/905) :
Cannot answer on the other questions right now, but I have a suggestion of
IMHO better code ...
Use the select case statement for your if, elseif sturcture ...
Select case true
    case left(telephone,2) = "00"
        telephone.format = "@@@@... etc...
    case left(telephone,2) = "09"
        telephon... etc...
End select
Seems to me it is visual better to understand and will help you to see where
to put your .visible = true statement.
Be aware that when you set visible off, you have to turn it on angain.
I do use a frame to put the control into.
That way, I can set visible off for the frame,
set telephone.visible to true
handle the telephone control format
handle the telephone.visible or not
set the frame.visible to true.
You only see the telephone if appropriate, you always see the frame, with or
without the telephonecontrol
groetjes,
Anje
(04-Jun-1998, 05:45)
system: You are Michel Vanderbeke, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Access 97: bringing an object to a modul16:40:1706/05/98".

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assistant: Hello All!
I want to process an object of a form through a module.  As well the object
itself (because I want to determine whether I will set Visible=true of
Visible=false depending on the contents) as the contents of that object.
To get the contents into the module, there is no problem.  In the module I
ut
Public abc as string and I return what I get to my form.
But how can I get the object itself into the module to determine there
hether
I leave that object visible or not?  So far I wasn't able to achieve this.
Many greetings from Brugge (Bruges - Belgium),
Michel
internet e-mail: michel.blablabla.vanderbeke@skynet.be
                 sky50909.blablabla@skynet.be
Attention: please remove ".blablabla" from the first part
           of my internet e-mail address.
system: You are Tony Toews, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michel Vanderbeke about "Access 97: bringing an object to a modul00:40:3506/08/98".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Michel Vanderbeke to All <=-
MV> I want to process an object of a form through a module.

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assistant: I'm not positive as I haven't yet played around with this.  However can
you not do something like:
        Dim frmABC as Form
        ....
        Call Subroutine(frmABC)
        ...
        Sub Subroutine(frmABC as Form)
        .....
        End Sub
Tony     www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm for Tony's Access Links & Tips
system: You are Tony Toews, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows Access message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michel Vanderbeke about "Access 97: bringing an object to a modul07:05:5706/08/98".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Tony Toews to Michel Vanderbeke <=-
TT> Dim frmABC as Form
TT> ....
TT> Call Subroutine(frmABC)
TT> ...
TT>
TT> Sub Subroutine(frmABC as Form)
TT> .....
TT> End Sub

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assistant: Whoops
        Set frmABC = Forms![ABC]
        Set frmABC = Nothing  ' (just to be on the safe side)
Tony