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If you want to see what you’re dropping into the trash, rename it to “~.wab”. It’s a copy of your address book, and as John said, an OE update Oops!
It will probably reappear each time you send mail using the address book, but it’s just annoying, not harmful.

If you want to see what you’re dropping into the trash, rename it to “~.wab”. It’s a copy of your address book, and as John said, an OE update Oops!
It will probably reappear each time you send mail using the address book, but it’s just annoying, not harmful.

Control Panel > Regional and Language Options >Languages. Click Details; now you can choose your default keyboard layout as well as several other languages and layouts, in case you need to change them in a text document on the fly. Under Preferences click Language Bar and check Show the Language bar on the desktop and if you like, Show additional Language bar icons in the taskbar. If you minimize the Language bar you’ll have it in the taskbar too.

There is also a little undocumented utility, C:WindowsSystem32osk.exe, which will show you on-screen the keyboard layout you are working with. Perhaps it’s all you need.

I’m frequently working with four or five languages in the same document so I have both the Language bar and the On-Screen keyboard on the taskbar. They work perfectly.

Sorry I got back so late. I hope this will help you.
Oana

Control Panel > Regional and Language Options >Languages. Click Details; now you can choose your default keyboard layout as well as several other languages and layouts, in case you need to change them in a text document on the fly. Under Preferences click Language Bar and check Show the Language bar on the desktop and if you like, Show additional Language bar icons in the taskbar. If you minimize the Language bar you’ll have it in the taskbar too.

There is also a little undocumented utility, C:WindowsSystem32osk.exe, which will show you on-screen the keyboard layout you are working with. Perhaps it’s all you need.

I’m frequently working with four or five languages in the same document so I have both the Language bar and the On-Screen keyboard on the taskbar. They work perfectly.

Sorry I got back so late. I hope this will help you.
Oana

You’re right, but I’m surprised: when I last looked they loaded pretty smoothly.

You’re right, but I’m surprised: when I last looked they loaded pretty smoothly.

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx%5B/url%5D

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx%5B/url%5D

As far as I know, Notepad and Wordpad don’t know how to save the cursor position. I’m afraid the only alternative to scrolling is to use the shortcut Ctrl+End as soon as you open the file.
Or, if you think it’s worthwhile, there are a lot of freeware / shareware text editors with better brains on offer.

Regards, Oana

Wendell and Hans, thank you both for answering.

Wendell, I’m very new at Access so I’m not sure what you mean by “lookup tables”. I didn’t explicitely create lookup tables, just separate tables with the lookup entries, linked to the fields in the main table. I didn’t use the Lookup Wizard and I still don’t understand why I should use Lookup fields in tables. It seems to me they are complicating things, but I’ve only begun designing and using my Library database a few months ago, so I’m just learning and enjoying it. But I see what you mean: it seems the only sure thing about the ISBN is the publisher, so I’ll try to create an ISBN – publisher table with the second part of ISBN as a primary key.

Hans, you and Wendell were right of course, I have to enter the whole ISBN number and fill the publisher’s field only AfterUpdate. It just seemed a fancy thing, to have a field fill up while you’re still typing in another one. But since my family and I are the sole users, who will stare in wonder?

I had started to outline a SELECT CASE code but as you say, the seemingly endless ramifications made me despair; I even found ISBN-numbers starting with a 3-digit group and there are rumours about the transition to a new 13-digit book code, so it’s really not worthwile.

Have a nice day and thanks again,
Oana

No, no, I meant your instructions to compile, which you already gave me (HTML Help Workshop & link from R2). I may be a nuisance, but not to that extent!

Anyway, I don’t intend to inflict help files on innocent people – my Access application is strictly for personal use. I just wanted to know if Microsofts help files could be “repaired”.
It worked great.

And think of the memories it brought back to you… (most evil grin, no corresponding smiley).

I backed it up waiting for your instructions (just in case).
Thanks a lot to both of you,
Oana

One wanted to fix the code, and one did it with your help. Now how does one compile it back into acmain9.chm ?

By the way, not only did the new code get rid of those error messages, it also revived the links in the right pane which did not function before.
I’m curious if the behaviour with the connection will persist.

Thank you and a bunch of roses and/or of beer mugs, whichever you prefer, to both of you.

Yes. So it’s Catch-22 for me.
Have a nice rest of a weekend.
Oana

In my understanding the “mk:@MSITStore:file name.chm::/topic.htm” – protocol creates a link to another Help file. The first Help file, acmain9.chm is on my computer – if it weren’t I wouldn’t be able to open Access Help. The topic to which I’m linking from there by clicking on a thumbnail (and which gives me the error messages) must be on Microsoft’s computer, since I can’t access it when the LAN connection is disabled.

So it’s not that I don’t want to fix the error, I can’t . Or do you see a way?

Sorry for spoiling part of your weekend and thank you.