Access 2003 Solution Center

Functions

How to create two functions to calculate age in months and in years in Microsoft Access
Describes how to create two functions that you can use to calculate the age of a person or of a thing that are based on a specified date in Access.
How to make a change to dates by using functions and operators in Access
Describes the functions and the operators that are available in Microsoft Access. You can use the functions and the operators to manipulate the Date/Time data type by using example queries.
How to create pop-up context-sensitive Help by using Windows API WinHelp()
Describes how you can use the Windows API WinHelp() function with its HELP_CONTEXTPOPUP argument to implement a Help system. To do this, you must know Visual Basic .NET and be familiar with the Microsoft Access.

Considerations for server-side Automation of Office
Developers can use Automation in Microsoft Office to build custom solutions that use the capabilities and the features that are built into the Office product. Although such programmatic development can be implemented on a client system with relative...
Access 2003 hotfix package: February 29, 2004
Describes issues that are fixed in the Access 2003 hotfix package that is dated February 29, 2004.
Description of Office 2003 hotfix package: March 5, 2004
Describes the issues that are fixed in the Office 2003 hotfix package that is dated March 5, 2004.

BUG: A message does not appear in right-to-left reading order when you use the MsgBox function with the VbMsgBoxRtlReading constant in Access
Describes a problem with messages that do not display in right-to-left reading order when you use the MsgBox function with the vbMsgBoxRtlReading constant. You can use a form with Orientation property set to "Right-to-Left" to workaround the problem.
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) functions break in a database with missing references
Describes the error messages that you may receive when you compile modules or run a procedure. Problem occurs if the procedure contains a VBA function and if your database contains a reference to a missing object library or a missing type library.
Function called from command bar control runs three times in Access
Explains why a function that is called from the command bar control runs three times in Access 2000 and in Access 2003. To work around this problem, you can store the procedure in the standard module instead of in the class module.