Changing multiple control recordsources

[Tony Wainwright]

Hi guys

I have an Access database that has had some 40 reports imported into it.
These reports have groupings with sums in the footers. Some of the reports
have as many as 7 groupings. The field names in the database have
consequently been changed from CurrentValue to CurrentValueSterling. Is
there any function that I could use to change these values? or would I have
to manually edit each controls recordsource. I'm looking for some sort of
Find?Replace function.

Thanks
Tony

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

Rick Fisher's Find and Replace add in (www.rickworld.com) can do this. It's
not free, but it is inexpensive and, in my opinion, excellent value for
money.

(I have no connection with Rick Fisher other than that of being a very
satisfied customer).

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[suntisuka]

If I not misunderstanding that you want to change ControlSource in every 40
reports, You can bind your report to a query rather than to table. In this
query, You can alias each field name. So, You can alias CurrentValueSterling
with CurrentValue. Then, your report still use the same ControlSource name.
Just change Report's RecordSource during runtime.

HTH
Suntisuk