This is going to be a very short and sweet (and saweeeet!!! that you don’t have to delete) post. Have you ever wanted to reset the counter on a autonumber field in Access, but don’t want to delete the table and start over again? SQL Magic to the rescue! Before running the SQL statement below, […]
Automatic Mail Merge With VBA and Access
I once built a program with MS Access that handled a mail merge job of ~1000 letters per week. It used a very simple word template. For input, every Friday, I pulled data from a production SQL database which I saved to an Excel spreadsheet. I built an import function that loaded the Excel data […]
Send Email Through Outlook with VBA
I have to say that I have been super hesitant to share this example as it could be used by spammers. That being said, there are plenty of legit uses for sending email through Outlook with VBA. I have used this function primarily to automate the delivery of scheduled reports where I pull in an […]
VBA Control Naming Conventions
It is always helpful to use thoughtful naming conventions for controls when working on a VBA project. This is especially true for when you need to open an old project to see what is going on, or when someone else needs to work on your project in the future. Everybody does this differently, but I […]
MS Word Document text to String with VBA
I once had a project where I had to work with a large directory of unsorted word documents. The main directory had a deep sub-directory where there were multiple versions of the same document with the same file name. It was a mess. Basically, my responsibilities were to pull out unique document filenames with the […]