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Pick / MultiValue Tips & Tricks
Not enough room to display a descriptive column heading on your Access report?
Create a new dictionary word that prints the column heading on more that one line.

Multiple Line Column Heading

The Invisible Man, uh, no, we mean the Invisible Dictionary Item

Invisible Dictionary Item

Do you have a wrapping issue?  Data wrapping around, splitting words apart because the specified length for output is less than the actual length of the data?  Try this!

Data Wrapping

Interested in creating easily maintainable, efficient code, while doing a bit of documentation at the same time?

INCLUDE this in your Basic code

Editing text during input or using those arrow keys

Find the key to unlocking record locks

Try this!

Note: All programs which allow updating to a file, should ALWAYS lock the record prior to allowing for updating or
maintenance to the data. This helpful hint will allow other users to continue working when they encounter a record that is already locked by another user.


Hushing or suppressing messages. Years ago, some MultiValue flavors had a verb called HUSH. Need to suppress output from your screen? Are messsages cluttering up, overwriing, or causing the screen to scroll?

 

Try this!


Need to know what day of the week a particular date is? Maybe you need to run a report automatically every Wednesday?

Find out the day of the week.


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