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    eddcole is offline Novice
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    Advice please

    Good morning and thank you for letting me join your forum.



    I'm reasonably new to Access so will try to offer advice if I can.

    I am looking for a bit of advice at the moment though.

    I have created a form that has numerous pieces of information that is needed to form a record, this can potentially exceed 255 items, maybe I'm doing something the long way and someone could point me in the right direction.

    My form is an invoice form that contains numerous items to be invoiced. I can generate client addresses easily enough with site detail etc but when it comes to entering the detail the same detail is entered again and again for example

    Item
    Description
    Cost
    VAT
    Total

    At present each line and entry is represented by a separate column so each line will contain 5+ columns extra in the table.

    At the moment the form can handle 13 lines but it needs to the have another page generated for the additional lines (advice also needed on this)

    as you can appreciate after so many lines the table can soon exceed the 255 column limit.

    Thanks in advance

    Edd

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    How many tables do you have.


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    eddcole is offline Novice
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    At present there are different tables for different information but all the info on the form is in one table

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    Quote Originally Posted by eddcole View Post
    At present there are different tables for different information but all the info on the form is in one table
    That makes it sound as though the same data is stored in more than one table. It should not be.
    Also, your description, in post #1, of the fields you have suggests to me that your table is poorly designed. I would recommend that you read up on db design and table normalization.
    If this helped, please click the star at the bottom left of this posting and add to my reputation . Many thanks.
    Bob Fitzpatrick

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    Any chance we can see this db edd. I'm amazed how much progress can be made when we can see it. A screen shot of the forms and table layout? Relationships?


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    eddcole is offline Novice
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    Think I got there, had to do another table and a subform cheers

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    ssanfu is offline Master of Nothing
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    From your description of your table in Post #1, it sounds like you have committed "spreadsheet". That is where you design an Access dB (tables) like a spreadsheet.
    I would suggest you stop and see these tutorials http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/forum/forum46.html
    Actually take the time to work through the tutorials. I think it will help you a lot.

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    eddcole is offline Novice
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    Quote Originally Posted by ssanfu View Post
    From your description of your table in Post #1, it sounds like you have committed "spreadsheet". That is where you design an Access dB (tables) like a spreadsheet.
    I would suggest you stop and see these tutorials http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/forum/forum46.html
    Actually take the time to work through the tutorials. I think it will help you a lot.

    Thank you I will take a look

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