[AccessD] Two stupid questions from newbie

It sounds like you're trying to look for specific words occurring in a
particular field,   that can certainly be done, for instance, by using
the InStr function to determine the first occurrence of the word in the
field.  Are you trying to do this in a query?  I'm getting confused by
your comment about SQL and the autoform/autoreport stuff.  

Tell us what your table structure looks like.  Table design is the
essence of both data entry and reporting, and SQL only works with
primary keys and appropriate indexes.  We need more information before
we can really be of any help.

Charlotte Foust

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Barbara Mende
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:35 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Two stupid questions from newbie

I'm a newbie not only to this list, but to Access.  I've worked with
FileMaker and Summation, but not with SQL.


This is a small Access 2002 database with basically one data entry form,
mostly text, no calculations, no relationships.  Not even lookup tables.
It's basically for searching for and reporting on info.


 I would like to do two things which I don't seem able to and which I'm
sure are painfully obvious.


1.  I have a text field which describes issues.  Let's call them wealth,
fame, power.  Some of the data relates to more than one of these, e.g.,
wealth and fame.  (Actually there are about twenty of them.)


What I'd like to do is put "wealth fame" or "wealth, fame" into the
issues field, so I can search for either weaIth or fame and come up with
the appropriate record. don't seem to be able to search on part of that
field, which is a text field.  So what I've been doing is creating one
record under "wealth," then another which is identical except that the
issues field reads "fame."  This seems to be a waste of bytes, and also
allows the likelihood of a search on another field bringing up duplicate
records.  I tried "like" but that didn't do it.  If I put both wealth
and fame into the issues field, I can't pull up either, either by
filtering or by querying.


2.  If you thought that was dumb, this one is dumber but I'm tearing my
hair out.  I would like to create forms and reports based on a saved
filter result.  The instructions say it's easy:  Run the filter, select
"autoform" or "autoreport" from the "new object" icon, and there you
are.  Trouble is that "autoform" and "autoreport" are grayed out.  If I
put them up as individual icons they're grayed out too.  Any ideas of
what settings I've screwed up or how to ungray them?


Thanks, everyone!
Barbara


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