saving as text to remove corruption of forms

[Marty]

two questions: I read somewhere that if you have a corrupt form in access,
you can use the application.saveastext and the application.loadfromtext to
remove corruption from a form. does this work? i tried to do this and
access blew up on the corrupt form...but i don't know if it usually works.

second question if you do saveastext to two forms, one corrupt and one
functional, is there anyway to compare the two? i tried to compare it in
word, and there was so many differences, there is no way to figure out
anything. i don't have any corrupt forms anymore, but i would like to know
this for the future.

thanks,

 

[John W. Vinson]

two questions: I read somewhere that if you have a corrupt form in access,
you can use the application.saveastext and the application.loadfromtext to
remove corruption from a form. does this work? i tried to do this and
access blew up on the corrupt form...but i don't know if it usually works.

Sometimes it works, and sometimes it just transfers the corruption. Totally
depends on the type of corruption (and for all I know, on the phase of the
moon and the aspects of Saturn).

second question if you do saveastext to two forms, one corrupt and one
functional, is there anyway to compare the two? i tried to compare it in
word, and there was so many differences, there is no way to figure out
anything. i don't have any corrupt forms anymore, but i would like to know
this for the future.

thanks,

Microsoft hasn't (to my knowledge) documented the contents of the text file.

 

[Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com]

John, you forget to include whether or not the current month had an 'R' in
its name! ;0)>