create a button to save form in pdf

[SylvieB]

Hello everyone
I need to create a button on a form that would save the form in pdf format.
I don’t know how to do that? any help will be greatly appreciated.
thank you very much

 

[Steve Schapel]

Sylvie,

The answer to your question depends on which version of Access you are
using. Can you please advise?

Also, it is a much more normal requirement to output a report to a PDF file.
Can you say why a form rather than a report?

--
Steve Schapel, Microsoft Access MVP

Hello everyone
I need to create a button on a form that would save the form in pdf
format.
I don’t know how to do that? any help will be greatly appreciated.
thank you very much

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[SylvieB]

Hey Steve
Thank you for your answer. I am using Access 2007. If i create a report i
need to create new fields in the table (which i don't want to do) for users
to be able to fill out the blank memo fields on the report. but since i don't
need to keep this information on the DB, how can i do that? Currenlty, if i
enter text on the memo field in a report and save or print it, it won't show

 

[Steve Schapel]

Sylvie,

If I understand you correctly, you have unbound (i.e. not linked to any
table field) controls on a form, where you enter some information, and you
want that information included in what is printed out, but after that can be
discarded and does not need to be saved in the database. Is that right?

If so, you can put equivalent unbound textboxes on your report, and,
assuming the form in question will still be open at the time that the report
is printed, you can reference the value of the form textboxes in the Control
Source property of the report textboxes, using syntax such as:
=[Forms]![NameOfForm]![NameOfTextbox]

--
Steve Schapel, Microsoft Access MVP

Hey Steve
Thank you for your answer. I am using Access 2007. If i create a report i
need to create new fields in the table (which i don't want to do) for
users
to be able to fill out the blank memo fields on the report. but since i
don't
need to keep this information on the DB, how can i do that? Currenlty, if
i
enter text on the memo field in a report and save or print it, it won't
show
on paper. I was hoping that would a better way to do it with a form. Maybe
not.

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[John... Visio MVP]

Sylvie,

I provide help with Access applications for a reasonable fee. If your need
is urgent and you don't find a solution, I can implement what you want for
a modest fee. Email me if you would like my assistance.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)

These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support.
There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie
is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of
"FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he
was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be
flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he
needs to constantly grovel for work.

A few gems gleaned from the Word New User newsgroup over the Christmas
holidays to show Stevie's "expertise" in Word.


Dec 17, 2008 7:47 pm

Word 2007 ..........
In older versions of Word you could highlght some text then go to Format -
Change Case and change the case of the hoghloghted text. Is this still
available in Word 2007? Where?
Thanks! Steve


Dec 22, 2008 8:22 pm

I am designing a series of paystubs for a client. I start in landscape and
draw a table then add columns and rows to setup labels and their
corresponding value. This all works fine. After a landscape version is
completed, I next need to design a portrait version. Rather than strating
from scratch, I'd like to be able to cut and paste from the landscape
version and design the portrait version.
Steve


Dec 24, 2008, 1:12 PM

How do you protect the document for filling in forms?
Steve


One of my favourites:
Dec 30, 2008 8:07 PM - a reply to stevie
(The original poster asked how to sort a list and stevie offered to create
the OP an Access database)

Yes, you are right but a database is the correct tool to use not a
spreadsheet.

Not at all. If it's just a simple list then a spreadsheet is perfectly
adequate...




John... Visio MVP

 

[James A. Fortune]

Sylvie,

I provide help with Access applications for a reasonable fee. If your need
is urgent and you don't find a solution, I can implement what you want for a
modest fee. Email me if you would like my assistance.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)

I think your latest blurb is an improvement over what you've used in the
past.

James A. Fortune
(e-mail address removed)

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From: King Mackerel & the Blues are Running

 

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Sylvie,

I provide help with Access applications for a reasonable fee. If your need
is urgent and you don't find a solution, I can implement what you want for
a modest fee. Email me if you would like my assistance.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)