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If you ever have to deal with long strings of freetext it’s likely you’ve come across random line feed and carriage returns in that text causing you headaches when it comes to manipulating the text.

Once you know how it’s quite a simple problem to deal with. This article describes how to remove the carriage returns and line feeds in SQL, Excel and Access. Read more…

I was developing in Access 2007 for the first time today (I was using Access 2000 the last time I developed in Access) and found a nice thing for entering dates into a text box. If you format the text box as a date it automatically shows a calendar control so the user can select a date from the calendar removing data entry formatting errors. So much easier than using the Active X calendar control in previous versions of Access. I was so glad/surprised to see it I’ve felt the need to write a post about something released 4 years ago