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Microsoft Access database developers often want to keep their VBA code backed up separately from their MDB files, so that when a disaster befalls the database file, the lost or corrupted MDB file doesn't mean that the hard work invested in developing the code for that database application is gone forever, too.

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Exporting Data from Microsoft Access with VBA Code
Access gives you two ways to export data, visually by going to File-Export and then selecting an export format from a dialog box or by using VBA code. In this article we will be looking at how to export Access data using VBA code, since even a beginner can use the visual interface to export data. Using VBA code requires some ability to write code and also a basic understanding of the target application’s object model. So why code? Because it offers you a wider choice of formats to export data to. It supports all the formats that is available in the dialog box as well as a whole host of others such as Microsoft Outlook contacts, appointments or a Word document.

Preventing Changes to your Microsoft Access VBA Code
If your database contains Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code procedures, you want to ensure that your users can't make changes unless authorised or qualified to do so. Access to the code can be prevented in a couple of different ways: Password protecting your VBA code.Saving the database as a Microsoft Database Executable (MDE) format.

Microsoft Access Tutorial
The programming of Access is divided into two pieces: macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The response to an event can be either a macro or VBA procedure (also called code). You can also create VBA code for general use throughout Access.

Hide VBA code from users
If your database contains Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) (Visual Basic for Applications (VBA): A macro-language version of Microsoft Visual Basic that is used to program Windows applications and is included with several Microsoft applications.) code, you can hide that code by saving your Microsoft Office Access database (database: A collection of data related to a particular subject or purpose. Within a database, information about a particular entity, such as an employee or order, is categorized into tables, records, and fields.) in the .accde file format. Saving a database as an .accde file compiles all VBA code modules, removes all editable source code, and compacts the destination database. Your VBA code retains its functionality, but the code cannot be viewed or edited. In general, the database will continue to function as usual - you can still update data and run reports. In this article you'll learn: Create an .accde file, Functionality that is changed in an .accde file, Issues with modifying forms, reports, or modules, Restrictions on saving a database as an .accde file, How references work with .accde files.

VBA Traps: Working with Recordsets
This article highlights ten common traps with DAO recordsets in VBA code. Most of the traps yield no syntax error; they are bugs lying dormant in your code until particular conditions are met. Your program then fails, or returns inaccurate results.

Copy SQL statement from query to VBA
Rather than typing complex query statements into VBA code, developers often mock up a query graphically, switch it to SQL View, copy, and paste into VBA. If you've done it, you know how messy it is sorting out the quotes, and the line endings. Learn how to build a form that massages the SQL statement from a query, so it can be pasted into a VBA procedure in Microsoft Access.

Database variable not defined error
I'm running an Access 2003/XP/2000/97 database with some VBA code in it. Within the VBA code, a database object is declared as follows: (Dim db As Database) When this code is encountered, Access highlights the line and I receive the following error message: (Compile error: User-defined type not defined) I've seen this code work in other Access databases. How come it does not work in mine?

Get started with Access programming
When you create a new database, you typically begin by creating a few database objects such as tables, forms, and reports. Eventually, you reach a point where you need to add some programming to automate certain processes and tie your database objects together. This article helps orient you to the programming tools in Microsoft Office Access 2007 and points you to some resources where you can learn more about programming. In this article: What is programming? Should I use macros or should I use VBA code? Use the Command Button Wizard to perform common programming tasks, Understand macros, Understand VBA code, Convert macros to VBA code, Learn how to use the Help system.

Automate applications with macros in Access 2007
If you have been using Access in the past, the easiest way to automate the tasks would have been by using the macros. On the other hand, programmers might have realized that writing VBA (visual basic for applications) modules is the best way to automate things in any Access database. Access 2007 makes it very easy to create macros. In previous versions, many macros could not have been created without using VBA code but in Access 2007 new features have been added to eliminate the need of using VBA code.

VBA Details
You want to create criteria for text and data fields, but no matter what syntax you try you seem to get errors or incorrect results. What are you doing wrong? TOC: VBA Details; Create a Global Procedure Stack; Create an Execution Time; Multitask Your VBA Code; Programmatically Add Items to a List or Combo Box.

Debugging VBA Code in Access 2003/XP/2000/97 (page 1 of 12)
VBA's Debugging Environment: VBA's debugging environment allows the programmer to momentarily suspend the execution of VBA code so that the following debug tasks can be done ...

Export Query from Switchboard
I would like to export a query to an Excel document through my Switchboard. There are options on the Switchboard to "Run Macro" or to "Run Code". When these are selected it provides a field for a "Macro" or "Function Name" to be entered. I would like to click the button on the Switchboard, have the desired Query ran and exported to a designated file location as an excel spreadsheet. I would appreciate help with the creation of the function to do such a task. I'm open to using Macros or Code; whichever would be more appropriate for the application. I'm running MS Access 2000. Currently, there are no Macros in my database. I do have some Code in parts. I appreciate the help. Thanks!

Perform an update with VBA code in Access
I have a table which has two fields - DepositAmount and WithdrawalAmount. I want to use VBA code to update the Withdrawal Column to equal the Deposit Column then to zero the Deposit column. How can I do this?

Importing Data into Microsoft Access using VBA
You might be wondering why you would want to use VBA code to import data while you have so many other options available when doing it the visual way. Well, there are two main reasons: Importing data through VBA code enables you to work with a variety of formats that is not available when you do it using the visual interface such as delimited text in a text file or data in a word table. On a more practical level, if you need to make the same import every time, then simply creating a function to do the job for you will make the process faster and easier as opposed to going through the import wizard every time.

Add new record using VBA code
I've created a form and I want to know how to add a new record by using VBA code?

Export data to Word
You can export data from your Microsoft Office Access 2007 database to a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document by using the Export Wizard. This article explains how to use the Export Wizard and how to save your export settings as a specification for later reuse. In this article * Exporting data to Word: the basics * Export data to Word * Understand how Access exports objects to Word

Export data to a text file
This topic explains how to export text files by using the Export Wizard in Microsoft Office Access 2007. This topic also explains how to save the export details as a specification for future use. What do you want to do? * Understand exporting text files * Export data to a text file * Troubleshoot missing and incorrect values in a text file

Jump Start VBA Skills with MS Access Macros
Macros help to speed up the performance of certain repetitive tasks when using an application. They are used extensively in all office-related software. As a programmer, you can leverage the built-in macro object in MS Access to get a head start in understanding VBA. This article explains how. TOC: Jump Start VBA Skills with MS Access Macros; Creating and running a macro in MS Access: opening the macro designer; Creating the first macro; Converting this macro to VBA code; Creating the second macro.

Access a value from a table using VBA code
How can I access a value directly from a table using VBA code?

Cancel printing a report if it does not contain any records
By default, you can print reports that contain no records. To solve this problem, you can use either a macro or Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code to detect the absence of records in a report and then cancel the print operation. The steps in this article explain how to use both techniques. What do you want to do? * Use a macro to cancel printing * Use VBA code to cancel printing

REPAIRING COMPACTING DATABASE WITH VBA
As far as Microsoft Access is concerned compacting the Database is an essential function to keep the Database size to the minimum. When you work with the Database MS-Access creates temporary work-objects within the Database resulting the file size to expand. We can display some of these temporary objects with VBA Code. Copy and paste the following Code into the Global Module of a Database that was not compacted recently.

Forms
Form Basics (Understanding and creating forms), Combo Box Basics, Tab Control (Creating tabbed pages on a form), VBA Basics (Understanding the VBA environment), Debugging VBA Code (Understanding VBA's Debugging Environment) in Access 2003/XP/2000/97

How to make design changes to an Access MDE file
A common question in Access database newsgroups and forums is 'How can I convert my Access database from MDE format into an MDB file?' If your file contains VBA code then the correct answer is that you can't since the MDE file is locked and protected. However, the protection isn't the main obstacle in trying to convert the MDE file, the main issue is that all VBA modules are saved in a compiled state with any original source-code being stripped out.

Convert GoToRecord macro to VBA code in Access
How can I convert a GoToRecord macro to VBA code?

Convert Close macro to VBA code in Access
How can I convert a Close macro to VBA code?

Convert GoToControl macro to VBA code in Access
How can I convert a GoToControl macro to VBA code?

Convert CancelEvent macro to VBA code in Access
How can I convert a CancelEvent macro to VBA code?

Export and FTP XML Files from Access XP
Access XP now simplifies the import and export of XML, but how will you put this new feature to work? Perhaps the question of how to make good use XML will become clearer as your database applications begin to interact with .NET projects, but you don't have to wait. In the following article, Danny Lesandrini shows how current day development issues can be solved with the new ExportXML method and some simple FTP code.

VBA Traps: Errors in Logic
This article is the third in a series discussing subtle bugs that lie unrecognized in your code until particular conditions are met. Common mistakes developers make when writing code in a Microsoft Access database.

VBA - Accessing Access
The inner circle of the VBA hosting environment includes all of the Office applications. Access, Frontpage, PowerPoint, and Outlook all have VBA environments ... but there aresome very significant differences between them. Of the non-Office applications, Visio, Project and MapPoint also have VBA environments.

VBA Basics in Access 2003/XP/2000/97 (page 1 of 7)
What is VBA? VBA standards for Visual Basic for Applications and is the language embedded within your Access database.

Copy MS-Access tables using VBA
Need to know how (and if it's possible) to copy data from db2 to db3 using VBA code in db1? I know how to copy tables from current database to another (using transferdatabase), but am required to distribute this data to other database in a procedure.

Forms how tos
How to add buttons to a custom command bar. How to change the number of Undo Levels. How to filter a form from an item selected in a combo box. How to pause execution of code in the current form until another form closes. How to use a form to update records from a table in a remote database, without linking to that table or writing VBA code for an ADO or a DAO connection. How to use a form to update records from a table in a remote database with a database password, without linking to that table or writing VBA code for an ADO or a DAO connection, and hide that password from the user. What the Revert item on the File menu is for.

Export a database object to another Access database
Access provides a number of ways to copy an object such as a table or form from one database to another. Copying and pasting an object is easiest, but exporting an object offers you more options. For example, you can export the table definition and the data in the table, or export just the table definition (a blank copy of the table). You can also save the details of the operation as an export specification for future use. This topic explains how to export an object by using a wizard and then how to save the details of that operation as a specification. What do you want to do? * Understand exporting data and objects to other Access databases * Export a database object to another Access database

Convert Quit macro to VBA code
How can I convert a Quit macro to VBA code?

Convert OpenForm macro to VBA code
How can I convert an OpenForm macro to VBA code?

Convert OutputTo macro to VBA code
How can I convert a OutputTo macro to VBA code?

Link to an Oracle table using VBA code
I'd like to link to an Oracle table using VBA code. How can I do this?

Compact your database with VBA
Have you experienced the problem with increasing size of your MS Access files? Do you need to compact your databases from time to time, especially when they reach specific file size? Then we have a solution build in VBA that could be easily implemented to any MS Access database (this code applies to Access Version 2000 and later).

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