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Version 10.0 Updated 02/10/2017
This demonstrates the use of an emulated split form which was designed to overcome many of the limitations of the standard version supplied with Access
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Version 1.0 Updated 25/06/2017
This is a simple day tracker for counting the number of days since an event or until an event
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Version 2.01 Updated 10/11/2017
This is a fully searchable database of all current UK postcodes. It provides more info than you'll ever need to know about each postcode together with a Google static map of the location
NOTE: This is a free cut down version of the UK Postal Address Finder app
Version 2.0 Updated 20/07/2017
This contains details of all VBA errors for Access 2010 as supplied by Microsoft
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Version 1606 Updated 13/02/2016
Originally intended for use in schools and colleges.
This can be used to maintain students' (or staff) network user names and passwords easily.
Version 1.0 Updated 02/10/2017
Two example databases intended mainly for use with Windows tablets.
1. Capture customer signatures as images
2. Convert text input by hand into standard text
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Version 1.0 Updated 28/08/2017
A kiosk style database intended for use with a barcode scanner and which can be 'locked'
The main purpose is to maintain focus on an Access form by preventing users moving outside the database 'window'.
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Version 3.0 Updated 08/09/2018
An Access database can create up to 255 simltaneous connections to local & linked tables.
However, if a large number of connections are left open, the performance of the application will deteriorate & eventually it may crash with a message: 'Cannot open any more tables' or 'Cannot open any more databases'.
This utility can be used to monitor the number of open databases/tables that can be created before these errors appear.
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Version 2.21 Updated 31/12/2020
This is a simple application to demonstrate two different methods for selecting and converting colours between the three different formats used by Access: OLE, RGB & HEX.
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Version 1.0 Updated 26/10/2018
This is a small puzzle for anyone interested.
The example application contains a form with a combo box whose row source is an empty value list. Yet the combo containds several values when viewed.
Can you work out where the combo list info is stored?
Better still can you re-create this scenario in another database?
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