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Reply Mon 2 Mar 2009, 15:50Delegate Toby said...

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How do you link up OLE to a form?

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Reply Thu 5 Mar 2009, 14:16Trainer Stephen said...

RE: OLE

Hi Toby

Thank you for your question

To use an OLE field it is first necessary to create the field in the table which is the form's control source. You then right click on the relevant control in the form and select the insert object option on the resulting context menu.

Windows explorer will then open and you will be asked to browse for the required object.

Hope this helps

Regards

Stephen

Thu 12 Mar 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.

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