Michael R Mattys
michael.mattys at adelphia.net
Tue Sep 7 09:58:36 CDT 2004
----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Fuller" > My form has controls whose names derive from the EoM() of a given date. > That is, the end of a month. The control's name will be something such > as "12/31/2004", etc. I need to set the focus to the column > corresponding to today's date. For the date on which I am writing this > message, the correct column is named "9/30/2004". ... > The EoM() function (which I wrote) returns a date. I need to take this > value and turn it into a reference to a column, such that I can write: > > Me.columnName.SetFocus Arthur, It looks like you mean to say that you have a subform set to "continuous forms." If that's the case, you'd say Me.SubformName.Form.Controls("EOMDate").SetFocus ---- Michael R. Mattys Mattys MapLib for Microsoft MapPoint http://www.mattysconsulting.com