Building a time schedule

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CaptainAndy

I have a need to build a time schedule for travel between cities or
particular addresses. I have collected the data in need and in MS Excel wrote
a program so as I enter the city names from a drop down menu the distance and
travel time are shown in a cell. I think this would work better in ACCESS,
however, I rarely use the program. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
 
Can not see a thing from here. Can not se the Excel data or the Excel
program at all.
 
Thanks Karl,
I could post the spreadsheet... would that help?
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Posting binaries is vehemently discouraged here. Perhaps you could post a text
description of the type of information that you're using (in Access jargon,
Tables, Fields (with their datatypes), and Relationships. Excel doesn't have
such structural constraints so maybe all you have is column names and
suggested datatypes for those columns - that would be a start.
 
Steve said:
Hello Captain,

I would like to offer to build an Access database for you that does the
same thing as your Excel program. I provide help with Access, Excel and
Word applications for a small fee. Contact me if you are interested.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)
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If you do think you are qualified to provide paid help, why are you not
pimping your services in the Word and Excel newsgroups?


These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support.
There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie
is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of
"FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he
was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be
flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he
needs to constantly grovel for work.

A few gems gleaned from the Word New User newsgroup over the past Christmas
period and a few gems from the Access newsgroups to show Stevie's
"expertise".


Dec 17, 2008 7:47 pm

Word 2007 ..........
In older versions of Word you could highlght some text then go to Format -
Change Case and change the case of the hoghloghted text. Is this still
available in Word 2007? Where?
Thanks! Steve


Dec 22, 2008 8:22 pm

I am designing a series of paystubs for a client. I start in landscape and
draw a table then add columns and rows to setup labels and their
corresponding value. This all works fine. After a landscape version is
completed, I next need to design a portrait version. Rather than strating
from scratch, I'd like to be able to cut and paste from the landscape
version and design the portrait version.
Steve


Dec 24, 2008, 1:12 PM

How do you protect the document for filling in forms?
Steve


One of my favourites:
Dec 30, 2008 8:07 PM - a reply to stevie
(The original poster asked how to sort a list and stevie offered to create
the OP an Access database)
Yes, you are right but a database is the correct tool to use not a
spreadsheet.
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Not at all. If it's just a simple list then a spreadsheet is perfectly
adequate...


Sept 10, 2009
(In respose to a perfectly adequate GENERIC solution stevie wrote)

This function is specific to the example but not generic for any amount paid
out.

Steve



Sept 9, 2009
Steve said:
you can then return all the characters in front of it with the Left()
fumction. Would look like:
Left("YourString",Instr("YourString","VbCr" Or "VbLf") - 1)

Steve
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No, it would not look like

Left("YourString",Instr("YourString","VbCr" Or "VbLf") - 1)

First of all, the constants are vbCr and vbLf: no quotes around them. With
the quotes, you're looking for the literal strings.

Second, you can't Or together character constants like that. Even if you
could, Or'ing them together in the InStr function like that makes no sense
at all.



Sept 22,2009
Sorry Steve, even I can see that this is a useless answer. I made it pretty
clear that "CW259" is just ONE possible value for the control.

Steve said:
Hello David,

Open your report in design view and select txtOrderID. Open properties and
go to the Data tab. Put the following expression in the Control Source
property:

=IIF([chkActive],"CW259","(CW259)")

Steve
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John... Visio MVP
 
Captiin,

Access and Excel are different in Access has a steep learning curve... But
it sounds like you willing to take the first step. Here are some resource,
umm FREE resources for you to read.

Jeff Conrad's resources page:
http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie/resources.html

The Access Web resources page:
http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html

A free tutorial written by Crystal (MS Access MVP):
http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html

MVP Allen Browne's tutorials:
http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials


http://www.databasedev.co.uk/table-of-contents.html

You should also look at the templates that Microsoft has for FREE there
might be something you can adapt. Should you decide to hire someone check
you local schools and universties and/or check references, as well as,
getting samples of their work. SHould you decide to take this on yourself,
we are here, to help, for FREE.

--
Gina Whipp

"I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors
II

http://www.regina-whipp.com/index_files/TipList.htm
 
Just to second Gina's reference to FREE resources and to FREE templates from
Microsoft. To my knowledge, none of the FREE MS templates is particularly
close to what you are describing, but studying them might help you get "the
lay of the land" so to speak, of how Access works. And, did we mention, they
are FREE.

If you wish to upload a spreadsheet, you might consider posting your
question at www.utteraccess.com, where we can accept small, zipped files
(under 500KB). If so, I'd be happy to look at it there. Oh, and just to be
clear, all support at UA is also 100% FREE.


George
 
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