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  1. mattsv

    A new spin on old problem: Sound works as admin, not limited user

    Yes, this is a bizarre problem and I don't just want to go at it blindly in the dark without some guidance. When searching, I did not find any posts relevant on tek-tips but I did find a comparable writeup on experts-exchange that I wish to enclose for completeness...
  2. mattsv

    Add format information to text in Memo fields?

    Hello, In one particular case, I have some text I'm typing in a memo field in my access database. When I do a mail merge, I would like to have that text carry over with formatting information from within the text. I don't want to do the formatting solely within Word, but rather I'd like to put...
  3. mattsv

    Encapsulating text in scroll bars (comparing subform)

    Is the only way to make a label field that contains 20 lines of text in the space of 10 lines by encapsulating that label in a subform? I was hoping there is some way to add a scroll box boundary, and all control GUI widgets I add inside would be able to scroll. It seems that subforms is the...
  4. mattsv

    MS Access: Conditional Form Widgets

    Hello, I have a question. I have some checkboxes a user clicks to answer some questions in an Access Form. When a user clicks certain checkboxes (or rather they tell the computer "Yes- This condition applies!") I want to display additional checkboxes relevant to that checkbox (kind of like sub...
  5. mattsv

    MS Word: Highlight text in Orange?

    Hello, Here's a teaser of a question. How does one go about highlighting text in a color other than those provided under the Highlight text toolbar icon? Suppose one wishes to highlight in orange, and orange is not listed as an option. There's no option to do something like this within the...
  6. mattsv

    Queries: Rename columns

    Hello, When I use the keyword "AS" to rename a column in a SQL query, it does not rename the column in the table returned by the query: SELECT Customer.ID, Customer.Address AS CustomerAddress The table that is returned has "Address" instead of "CustomerAddress" as the name of the attribute...
  7. mattsv

    [curious] Echo "Hello World" VB script output into Word

    How does one go about doing something like this: I author some VB code where I write "Hello World", then have the output text echo to a particular part of a word document? So that "Hello World" can appear within a paragraph of text which was already composed in MS Word. Keywords: embed VB...
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    Windows XP Home: tskill exit gracefully

    Hello, Unlike it's counterpart taskill, tskill does not exit gracefully*. Is there a utility which functions like taskill/tskill but permits exiting gracefully and can be executed as part of a batch file? I downloaded pskill from sysinternals, and it doesn't seem to permit exiting...
  9. mattsv

    Through a batch file: Check if program is running

    Any way whether through, a third party utility, or an MS executable, or dos shell command which permits checking whether an instance of a program is running from a DOS batch file?

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