jack drawbridge
jackandpat.d at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 19:01:56 CST 2014
Found this via Google (it's Office 2013 specific--includes Access) I don't have 2013 so am unsure if it;s relevant. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/automatically-correct-capitalization-HA010354276.aspx On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Charlotte Foust <charlotte.foust at gmail.com>wrote: > Wise guy! I'm like a bulldog, I get my teeth into something and won't let > go. There must be some reason it saves some of the changes but not most of > them! I don't usually name fields like this but on this project I have to > leave as many breadcrumbs and balls of string as possible for the > non-programmers who will maintain it. > > Charlotte > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:17 PM, John W Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Give up and accept that Microsoft knows best? Mail cat feces to everyone > > at Microsoft? Follow Arthur to another database product entirely? Take > up > > Yoga and consider your navel? Copious quantities of attitude enhancing > > drugs? > > > > All of those suggestions are better than shooting yourself. > > > > ;) > > > > John W. Colby > > > > Reality is what refuses to go away > > when you do not believe in it > > > > > > On 2/17/2014 4:57 PM, Charlotte Foust wrote: > > > >> I'm working on my current contract and decided to use lower case > prefixes > >> on field names (Access BE and FE) to indicate table or category of the > >> value and insure unique field names. For some reason, Access keeps > >> recapitalizing the first character of the field names when I save, > close, > >> and reopen the table in design view! Has anyone else run into this? I > >> just spent several hours lower casing prefixes only to discover after I > >> ran > >> a routine to extract the field names that they had been recapitalized! > >> I've fiddled with turning off Autocorrect, but that seems to do > nothing > >> positive for me. > >> > >> Any suggestions before I try shooting myself? > >> > >> Charlotte > >> > > > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >