Honestly, Subforms arent worth the trouble...

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Bill Mitchell

After much thought, I have determined that subforms are
good for displaying or adding data only. As far as doing
any manipulation on them such as using shortcut menus,
you are far better off with cleverly synchronized pop-up
forms.

Like anyone cares what I think but I just felt like
saying it, lol.

Bill
 
After much thought, I have determined that subforms are
good for displaying or adding data only. As far as doing
any manipulation on them such as using shortcut menus,
you are far better off with cleverly synchronized pop-up
forms.
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Bill,

I'm perfectly OK with custom shortcut menus, calculations in the form
header/footer, combos depending on another field, printing various
docs from a button (one record or more), data validation on record
level, manipulating the record source at runtime, etc. - and this
since Access 2.0. The problem "continuous subform cannot contain
continuous subform' can also be solved through synched subforms.

And I most definitely would not want to give up the reliability of
Access managing the table relationship integrity by simply setting the
master/child fields.

What is it what you would want to do exactly, and found subforms don't
fit?

Best regards
Emilia

Emilia Maxim
PC-SoftwareService, Stuttgart
http://www.maxim-software-service.de
 
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