From the course: Access: VBA

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Requery and repaint forms

Requery and repaint forms

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Requery and repaint forms

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- [Narrator] When you manage an Access database, there's a lot going on behind the scenes. Occasionally, you will find that a table providing values to a form has changed, and your form doesn't contain the most recent values. You can also find that Access consistently fails to redraw a form properly. There are millions upon millions of Windows users around the world and it's impossible for the operating system programmers to get everything working perfectly, all the time, on every machine. If you happen to have created a form that doesn't redraw properly, then I'll show you how to repaint it so that it does look good. During this introduction, you might have noticed that I said these techniques refer to forms and I left out reports, well that's true. Normally the me object can refer to either forms or reports but what I'm showing you here refers to forms only. I have opened the course database and I'm currently looking at the Customers form in form view and I've also opened the…

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