VB Forum / VB Syntax / December 2003

As we head off to spend time with out families over the holidays, I'd like
to wish one and all a safe Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Years.

I don't normally do any programming, but I'm trying to get dragon to open
word and it doesn't work natively.  Is there a command to run C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\winword.exe ?
Thank you

I am a newcomer to VB and therefore need help about how to write and read
from a database such as Access.
I need to know how to connect to.
How to update rows.

When Cells.find is null the script returns an error 91
(stops dead). According to some MS help I found at the URL
below I should be able to use Set RangeObj = Cells.Find
(...) in order to evaluate the result.  However I always

On my homepage I have a guestbook.
Just before christmas someone wrote a message in my
guestbook. My guestbook pretty much look like this page
when you post a new message.

How can I read into/from a file by using vb ?
Need sample code, please.
Thanks :)

is there a function to get the format of the system date?
Can you change it in the code (the systemdateformat)?
alternative :
how do I set a date to the first of a certain month

For the following code, I get the message :
user type not defined.
Why ?
Here is the code :

I have the following :
dim s as string
dim b as byte
b has a value of 97 (ordinal value of character "a" )

We have a problem using dates in different locals (for
example "yyyy-MM-dd" and "dd/MM/yyyy")
I read that it is possible to use the # to avoid problems.
for example

I am trying to copy information from one file and paste it
into another file.  I have a checkbox in the first file
(copy area)-when checked, the text above the checkbox goes
into another file (second file).  The first time works

Hi, All
How can i check if Month(Now) falls into range of dates
like From April to October? I have to check only month.
Please, any ideas...

How does the VB IDE control character case?  For instance,
where I see foo.Enabled, someone else sees foo.enabled.
Since I have to share my code with other developers, and
because the IDE automatically changes character case, we

I am doing my first working application with Sue Mosher's book on the desk
and am executing the code shown below.
There are 921 items in the Conacts folder and this run always halts around
Item 52something with a run type error 13 Type Mismatch on the "Next"

I am trying to call my help program named acshelp.chm from
a form but when I tried help.showhelp("acshelp.chm") and
some variations nothing worked. There is not much real
help on help it seems like, in the documentation for