Dial a phone in Access 2003

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Kevin

I just installed Windows XP over 2000 and was forced to do a clean
install, so now all I have is Office 2003 on the machine. I've
discovered, it seems, that MS no longer provides a communications
control. What's replaced it, or what else do you use to dial a phone?
The only thing I can find in the KB is something for VB.NET.

Amazing!

Kevin
 
I don't remember the communications control coming with Access. I have used
one before, but it came with VB 4/5/6 and I used it in Access. Did you have
Visual Basic installed at one time?
 
Yes, I did, but after XP all I have left is VB .NET. Do I have to (and
can I) install VB 6 on top of it to get it back? How silly is that?

No.... actually I found a copy of MSComm32.ocx, and after a little
fiddling, it works again.

MS Giveth, and MS taketh away.... :{

Thanks,

Kevin

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I don't remember the communications control coming with Access. I have used
one before, but it came with VB 4/5/6 and I used it in Access. Did you have
Visual Basic installed at one time?

-- Wayne Morgan Microsoft Access MVP "Kevin" <BudStJohn@ho
 
You can when using the command button wizard select Miscellaneous and then
Auto Dialer.

I believe this is part of Access 2003 in the UTILITY module there is a form
called Form_ad_frmAutoDial.

I think this has been there since Access 1.0

You can invoke it with the following: Application.Run
"utility.wlib_AutoDial", strPhoneNumber.
 
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