Templstes (How to Modify Them)

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I was getting some help from John Vinson on some expressions. John was right
I modifying the template wrong. I have the changes that I think I need to
make but it has pictures of what I want my Entry form to look like and it
won't go in this message box. Is there somewhare I can e-mail it or fax it so
John Could look at the changes to the template that I think I need?
 
I was getting some help from John Vinson on some expressions. John was right
I modifying the template wrong. I have the changes that I think I need to
make but it has pictures of what I want my Entry form to look like and it
won't go in this message box. Is there somewhare I can e-mail it or fax it so
John Could look at the changes to the template that I think I need?
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I quite understand what you want to do.

What I'm saying is that what you want to do will be WRONG and make your
database all but unusable... or else will be a lot of work to create an
unbound form, with some complicated code to move the data from the tables to
the form and vice versa.

Again: have you *TRIED* the template? Is it demonstrably unusable? Or is the
objection to it just that "new is evil"?
 
John, I stayed up untill 3 in the morning last night trying to make my
program changes. It didn't work at all. The changes I'm proposing is to use
the database almost as is, with a few minor changes. Like changing the look
of the entry form that they alredy use and deleting some of the fields in the
table like [County/ Region] witch we don't use. I also need to delete some of
the reports that we wouldn't use. Will this effect how the program works?
 
John, I stayed up untill 3 in the morning last night trying to make my
program changes. It didn't work at all. The changes I'm proposing is to use
the database almost as is, with a few minor changes. Like changing the look
of the entry form that they alredy use and deleting some of the fields in the
table like [County/ Region] witch we don't use. I also need to delete some of
the reports that we wouldn't use. Will this effect how the program works?
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My concern is that you are taking a table with - correctly - one Hours field
per record, and changing it into a spreadsheet with seven Hours fields per
record.

There's no problem changing the look of the form or deleting some fields, or
deleting some reports. That should be fine.

But - if you're still insisting on having fields [Mon Hours] and [Tue Hours]
and [Total Hours] in your table, then you are simply digging yourself a hole
and will really really regret it.
 
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