Creating a database

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Michelle

I need to create a database where I can enter all my customers. I would like
to be able to click on a customer and have a new form open like word or
something where I can include notes. Can this be done and how?
 
Michelle

Why do you need a new form?

What about the idea of having a form with a combobox in the header? Select
the customer from the combobox, have Access load a portion of the form with
customer info, then enter your "notes" in a subform that holds all
(previous) notes for the selected customer.

Or am I missing something...?

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP
 
Michelle said:
I need to create a database where I can enter all my customers. I would
like
to be able to click on a customer and have a new form open like word or
something where I can include notes. Can this be done and how?
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Have a look at the Northwind database that ships with Access. It's not
perfect by any means but it will give you some ideas.

Keith.
www.keithwilby.co.uk
 
Jeff

I own a shop. I have clients that come in and become members. I would like
to put the members in a database. Each time they come in I would like to open
the database select there name and another screen open where I can put
information like when they came in, how long they were there, if they bought
anything. It's for to help me with marketing and knowing my customers a
little better. I know very little about access.
 
Michelle

MS Access is a relational database. If you don't have experience with
normalization and/or relational database design, if you don't have
experience with Access, if you don't have experience with application
development, and if you don't have experience with human-factors/graphical
user interface design, you have four very steep learning curves in front of
you!

How is it that you settled on Access as the "tool of choice" for this
project?

Is there a reason you couldn't just use paper/pencil (or a spreadsheet or
word document) to keep the info?

Good luck!

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP
 
Steve said:
Hello Michele,

Let me build the database for you and save the aggrevation of doing it
yourself. I provide help with Access applications for a reasonable fee. My
fee for your database would be very modest. Contact me if you are
interested.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)
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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 Christmas
holidays to show Stevie's "expertise" in Word.


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...




John... Visio MVP
 
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