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Microsoft® Access 2010
™
VBA Macro Programming
About the Author
Richard Shepherdhas worked for many years for major banks and corporations in the
United Kingdom creating Access databases to solve specific problems. These companies
include National Grid plc (electricity distribution), Hertz Car Leasing, NatWest plc (retail
banking), Schroders plc (fund management), BNP Paribas (investment banking), Lloyds TSB
plc (corporate banking), The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (investment banking), and the
British National Health Service
He has developed advanced databases for budgeting, business planning, trading reporting,
and profit and loss reporting. He has qualified as an accountant with the Association of
Chartered Certified Accountants and is now a Fellow of the Association. He is also the author
ofExcel VBA Macro ProgrammingandExcel 2007 VBA Macro Programming(McGraw-Hill
Professional).
Richard works as a freelance software developer and can be contacted at
[email protected].
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includingSQLforDummies,DatabaseDevelopmentforDummies,andCrystalReports2008for
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Microsoft® Access 2010
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VBA Macro Programming
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Contents at a Glance
Part I Programming in Access VBA
Chapter 1 The Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2 Variables, Arrays, Constants, and Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 3 Modules, Functions, and Subroutines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 4 Programming Basics: Decisions and Looping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Chapter 5 Strings, Functions, and Message Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 6 Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 7 Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 8 Errors and the Error Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Chapter 9 Forms and Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Chapter 10 Common Dialog Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Chapter 11 Working with the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Chapter 12 SQL Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Chapter 13 Table Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Part II Object Models
Chapter 14 The Access Object Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Chapter 15 The Main Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
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Chapter 16 The DoCmd Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Chapter 17 Using Access to Interact with Other Office Programs . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Part III Advanced Techniques in Access VBA
Chapter 18 Charts and Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Chapter 19 Working with External Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Chapter 20 API Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Chapter 21 Class Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Chapter 22 Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Part IV Access VBA in Action
Chapter 23 Getting the Login ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Chapter 24 Securing Your Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Chapter 25 Creating Audit Trails on Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Chapter 26 Creating and Editing Queries in VBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Chapter 27 Search and Replace in Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Chapter 28 Using the DateAdd Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Chapter 29 Monitoring Table Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Chapter 30 Handling Large Text Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Chapter 31 Create and Change Table Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Chapter 32 Create an Objects Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Chapter 33 Manipulate Chart Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Chapter 34 Drill Down on Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Chapter 35 Use Excel For Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
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Chapter 36 Use FTP in VBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Chapter 37 What Happens When the 2-GB Limit Is Reached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Chapter 38 Creating Menu Structures with the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Chapter 39 Make Controls on Forms Interactive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Chapter 40 Set Up Levels of User Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Appendix ASCII Character Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365