[AccessD] the value of Access constants

Well... that makes it easy.  So if you want to feed the text, you have to
feed that whole string - "Snapshot Format (*.snp)"?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:03 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] the value of Access constants


On 4 Dec 2003 at 22:48, John W. Colby wrote:

> I need to know the value of the constants acFormatSNP, acFormatRTF etc.
If
> I go to the debug window and input:
>
> ?acFormatSNP
>
> I get:
>
> Snapshot Format (*.snp)
>
> I need the actual integer (or long?) value of the constant so I can store
it
> in a lookup table and allow selecting the kind of report I want using the
> docmd.outputto.
>
> Does anyone know how to see the actual numeric value of this thing?
>

Doesn't have one. It's a text constant, not a numeric.
acFormatSNP =  "Snapshot Format (*.snp)"

Open the VBA Object Browser Window and look at Access.Constants
All the acFormatxxx constants are listed as string values.


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