Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Mar 2 20:21:56 CST 2006
On 2 Mar 2006 at 18:55, John Colby wrote: > LOL, because it is the wrong syntax and can cause the vba interpreter to get > confused and do stupid things. In the early days of Access, me.object was > the accepted syntax. Sometime around A97 Microsoft switched to the ! As the > "accepted" syntax. Dot is for properties, Bang is for objects. Using Dot > to refer to properties is known to cause weirdnesses. > I recently had to update a series of A97 applications to XP. The original developer had used "Me." in a number of places to refer to controls and I had to change then to "Me!" before the upgraded app would compile. Unfortunately, I can't rememer the exact error that they were throwing when I tried to compile. -- Stuart