senoritafish | (no subject)

V. and I have been trying to convert a fairly simple dBASE program, the one I use to do the monthly landings update, into Access. V. is a bit more advanced than I am, but I am slowly catching up. We were making pretty good progress, but we can't figure out how to make Access do one thing that is fairly simple in dBASE. V. sent an email to our Access instructor we trained with, and there is a class being offered here next week so we can ask that instructor too. Until we figure that out, we are stymied. I think I might know a way around it, but it seems very roundabout, and there must be something simpler.

It's frustrating; in dBASE, I knew what the text command was, but I don't know Visual Basic and only the tiniest smidgen of SQL, so trying figure out what to do though menus and buttons is laborious. I need to take a full-on semester type class, I guess; these two-days training courses the state gives just don't cover enough, especially when they don't want us traveling because of the budget, and training given in my area is about 5 months between levels. I can always take the online courses, but if I need to ask a question, there's nobody to ask.