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  1. msstrang

    Saving Excel and File Security

    Hello All, I've been working on this issue for 2 days now and can not come up with a good solution, please someone point me in the right direction... When using VB6 to save an excel file the creator of that file has ownership of the created file. This allows for the creator of the file to...
  2. msstrang

    Only allow entry of text matching a format

    Hello, I have spreadsheet where I want one column of data to only allow any user to input a value in the following format: CCV-L-010-01 for example. The numbers can change and the L can be a U sometimes. Is there a way to do this without using macros?
  3. msstrang

    GUI Winsock Server

    I hope someone might be able to lead me in the right direction. I currently have a winsock server application that I've written - it works fine as a console application. My problem is I want it to be a Windows Forms application. When the server application goes into listen mode waiting for a...
  4. msstrang

    Form Goes Blank

    Hi Everybody, I'm trying to figure out a silly little issue I've got going on here. I've written a windows form project using VS c++ 2005 Express. I have it set up so when the user presses the "connect" button the code jumps to another module I currently have that opens a winsocket port and...
  5. msstrang

    Remote Access

    Hey all, Currently I've got a c++ application that I've written that allows a remote client to request and receive a file from a workstation in our office via winsocket2. However, when requesting the file the client must type the path exactly, ie: "C:\Filename.txt". I want to make this much...
  6. msstrang

    drop down list won't stay "drop downed"

    Hey, Just noticed something fishy, looks like an IE7 issue because I don't see it on my other workstations that run earlier versions of IE. My website has a drop down list, but when you try to select an item in the list using the mouse it "undrops". I can use the up/down keys to select the item...
  7. msstrang

    username / password on existing network

    Hey All, I'm an electrical engineer posing as a network engineer at the moment... i've inhereted an existing network that uses a cisco 1721 router. i'm working on a much larger scope project, but before i can proceed i need to access the CLI. i can connect to it using hyperterminal no problem...
  8. msstrang

    EMBEDDED FLASH

    Hey, I usually use Tek-Tips for VB, C++, etc. However, I'm trying to add a flash object to a webpage for my companies website. I have no problem embedding the .swf. My problem is that although my side bar has no issues with the page header, my flash object does not "go under" the header like...
  9. msstrang

    setup and

    Hey all, I've just finished my first VB project (based on my 5000th VBA project) and hit this speed bump: I want my setup file to deploy to "C:\SDG", but everything online says to do this I need to proceed the following way: File - Add - New Project Setup and Deployment submenu gives you six...
  10. msstrang

    Add ComboBox Items

    Hey everyone, I'm transferring an old VBA code I wrote in the past to VB2005, but with one small problem that I hope someone can point me in the right direction on. I have a combobox "ComboBox1" that adds all the items of a column in an excel spreadsheet as it's items. There is also a button...
  11. msstrang

    Print a PDF file using VBA

    Hello all... I've written a program that let's the user select files within a folder and automatically print them. Where I am having trouble at is getting the program to print PDF files. Below is the code I am using: '********************************************************** Public Function...
  12. msstrang

    outlook tasks in VBA

    happy holidays everyone, i hope the weather isn't too cold where you are. i'm modifying a code i wrote early this year that creates an email based on a spreadsheet. i want the code to take the body of the open email and make that the body of an outlook task, take the subject of the open email...
  13. msstrang

    sender name vba outlook

    excuse the messy code below, i'm still in the process of cleaning it up. i'm trying to use MAPI or some other way to get the sender address from the email i am reading. the code below finds new mail in my inbox and saves the attachments and prints the email. all i need is to check for the...
  14. msstrang

    loading a project onto another computer

    i have written a macro and saved it in a new project named "project.dvb". i then loaded this project onto a coworker's computer and attempted to run the project, but the code stops on the following code: y= RIGHT (X, 2) the debugger hightlights the command "RIGHT" this project works on my...
  15. msstrang

    vba plotting

    hey all!!! i've gotten very far into a vba program i am currently writing. so far it does the following steps; 1. connects to my ftp site 2. logs onto my ftp site 3. goes to the specified folder on my ftp site 4. searches the folder for a specific pdf. 5. returns whether or not the pdf file...
  16. msstrang

    FTP / INET FOLDER SEARCH

    i am a pretty good user in vba, but have never used it to work with an FTP folder, and i am having much trouble finding any help in the way of sample code. so far i am using the following code i found online to upload a file just so i can get a grip of using an FTP with VBA. However when i run...
  17. msstrang

    adding email signature with vba

    i have an email signature in Outlook that i use with all of the new emails i create manually. i have recently created a VBA program i wrote to create new emails for certain tasks i do to save time. when i use the VBA program to write emails my email signature is not added to the email. how...
  18. msstrang

    active x error when accessing word with excel

    i am writing a vba code that opens a word document that already exists, and then addes certain text to the document in predermined places. my only problem is that when i try to open the word document, or any word document with my vba code that is in excel, i get the following error: "Active X...
  19. msstrang

    exploding everything in a drawing using VBA

    i am currently using a vba program that copies all the text from an autocad 2002 drawing and then places it into an excel spreadsheet. i used to use a lisp program to do this, but it mysteriously stopped working one day.. regardless, with the help of someone on this forum i got my vba to work...
  20. msstrang

    EXCEL TO OUTLOOK - PUTTING DATA ON A SECOND LINE

    i'm writing a program that takes data from fields in an excel spreadsheet and creates an outlook email from this data. the only problem is i do not know how to put data from one excel cell on the first line of the outlook email, and put data from another excel cell on the second line in the...

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