While there is a report viewer that one can use to view reports created in Access, if you send reports to someone who you don't know if they have Access, then send it as a PDF. Access 2010 can output directly to PDF. The old versions used MDB files - Access 2003 uses MDB files. If your file is an MDB file you just have to right click it and choose open with access 2003. If the file is accdb you should open it with access 2007 and use the save as option and choose access 2000-2003. There is some info here. Access 2000, XP, 2003. Barcodes in Access database forms Access 2007. Read more OK, got it!
Here we show you how to add a barcode into a Access database and bind it to a data field. First launch Access and create a new database or open an already existing database in what you want to add a barcode. A simple database could look like this:
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Next create a new form and add the ActiveBarcode control to the form. Select the 'Developer tab'. Click on the button 'Insert ActiveX control' from the range of 'Controls'.
The following dialog will appear:
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Select 'ActiveBarcode' here and click OK. Now the barcode object will be placed in your form. This will be a standard barcode of EAN-128 type. This is the default type. Now you can modify this barcode. You can change the type, text, colors etc. For this click inside the barcode with the right mouse button. A pop up menu will open. Select 'ActiveBarcode-Object' and then 'Properties...'. The property dialog of ActiveBarcode will open. Here you can modify the barcode as you like. For example you can change the type to any barcode type supported by ActiveBarcode: QR Code, GS1/EAN-128, Data Matrix, GTIN/EAN-13, Code 39, GS1-Data Matrix, Code 128, PDF417, DUN-14, EAN-8, EAN-14, EAN-18, ISBN, ITF-14, NVE, PZN8, SCC-14, SSCC-18, ...
Next we bind the controls text property (the barcodes content) to the data field 'Productnumber' of the database.
Select the 'Developer tab'. Click on the button 'Property sheet' from the range of 'Tools'.
Have a look for the entry 'Control Source' and change it to 'Productnumber'. This is the data binding:
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Now close the design mode of the form and watch the result by simple opening the form:
The barcode control is bound to the data base field and shows the product number of the current data set as EAN-128 barcode.
Embedding and binding an ActiveBarcode control into reports is very similar.
One last hint: A report is designed in a lower resolution that it is using while printing. So it is required that you create the barcode control with a much bigger font size than you would normally use. Otherwise the text line under the barcode may be very very small in your print.
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Hi how do i call a pdf file from a form in ms access please ?
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You don't say whether you want to call it from a menu or a button or something else, but whatever the mode, you'll want to do if from a macro attached to that mode.
In your form, create a button (for example) and for the OnClick property, call the macro macOpenPDF (for example). In the Action column, use 'runapp' and for the command line argument, you must reference the path and filename to Adobe Acrobat (the application) and then, the path to the actual document you want to open. In my test form, here is my command line argument for the runapp action:
C:Program FilesAdobeReader 8.0ReaderAcroRd32.exe c:clc-drive.pdf
Save the macro and the form, then click that sucker and see it work! Of course, you can use this same method to open any document from any valid application, even text files in Notepad. But make sure your users will have the same applications at the same path destinations or the logic will fail.
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Good luck- SLH