Re: Forms or Reports

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I am using 2007 and there is NO sequence

Douglas J. Steele wrote:
I fear you read far more into my comments than was intended.

1) When you say "You cannot EXPORT a Form", this is not true. You can
export
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Form it produces a Text File which is Formatted and it fills the Text File
with Stupid Dashes.

Where did I say you cannot export a form? The closest I can see is "Forms
don't have data: tables do. Using TransferText to export the data from the
tables doesn't limit you to formatted text files with dashes added."

2) You stated..."You could link to the text files", again this is not
possible because Access clearly states that 'Linked Files CANNOT be edited
and can ONLY be appended too". As the User wishes to edit the original
Text
Files using your suggested method will not work.

You can link to text files. Linking does NOT necessarily mean updating. Note
that my comment said "You could link to the text files, and use the linked
tables as the basis for queries that refreshes the data in your Access
tables."

3) You stated "Text files don't allow multiple users to update them.
Because
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is editing the files, so there is no conflict". This makes your comment
unnecessary

My comment has nothing to do with YOUR data source. It is a generic comment
about Windows. It's not possible for multiple users to update a text file.
Because of that, Access does not provide the ability to update a text file.
I suspect that this is because Access is intended to be a multiuser
application and the developers didn't want things to work inconsistently.

I am using a Form because the USER wishes to process data from External
Text
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am
using FORMS...is this not the purpose of a Form?

Yes, Forms are windows into the data contained in tables. To change data,
you use a form.

Once the USer is happy with the results, he/she will wish to print the
results to paper. I have two Forms, the first is a SIngle Computation
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find
any references as to how it is done.

In Access 2003 and earlier, you select the form in the database window and
right-click. One of the options in the context-sensitive menu that appears
is "Save as report". I'm afraid I don't have Access 2007 installed on this
machine, so I'm not positive of the sequence there.

When you examine the differences between Forms and Reports, the only real
difference is that a Form is more versatile. If Microsoft were to include
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Is it possible? or are the Access Designers missing something

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