Category: VBA

Modifying the Ribbon – Part 6

As mentioned in Part 5 of this series, this post will display how to change the value of a Ribbon control from a VBA procedure. For this example, we will continue to work with the case presented in Part 5,

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 5

Previous posts on this subject: -Part 1 -Part 2 -Part 3 -Part 4 Creating a CheckBox Until now, all the posts have focussed on creating buttons in a variety of styles, shapes and sizes. Today, we'll take a look at

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 4

Previous posts on this subject: -Part 1 -Part 2 -Part 3 Using Your Own Picture on a Button Well... maybe not your own picture... unless you're feeling vain today. 😉 I really meant using an image of your choice. This

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 3

Here's the previous parts to this: -Part 1 -Part 2 Using Excel's Images on Custom Ribbon Controls In Part 2, we built the following custom group on a custom tab: This time, we'll replace all the happy face images with

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Using Help in Your Applications

Introduction: One of the biggest parts lacking in user constructed solutions is documentation in the form of help files. As coders, we usually find it easier to build the application than explain to someone how to use it properly. After

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Printing Access Reports To A PDF File

This article contains code examples to print a Microsoft Access report to a PDF file. This code examples is built for PDFCreator, an open source PDF writer utility. Unlike Adobe Acrobat and CutePDF, which both require pro versions to create

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