My question seems to be very silly, but I haven't found solution myself.
Is there a way to simply paste a macro (example) from Stack Overflow in Access? Or, alternatively, paste it from Access to Stack Overflow?
I know, it is very easy in Word and Excel. But I can't understand how to do it in Access.
Basic questions certainly deserve asking, if they're not duplicates.
There are a couple of different cases:
Add VBA on a form event (this case)
- Open up the form in design view
Identify the control you want to add the macro to (the part before the _
is the control name, the part after the _
is the event name, so the KeyDown
event on the form control.
Identify the event you want to add code to on the event pane
- Press the builder
...
thing
- Choose Code Builder and press OK.
- You will see some event code has already been added. Replace that with the copy-pasted code.
- Add VBA (function or sub) outside of a form (triggered elsewhere, such as a user-defined function for use in queries)
- Open up the VBA editor by hitting Alt + F11
- Choose Insert -> Module in the top bar
- Paste the code
- Paste a normal, non-VBA macro using AXL
- Create a macro on the create tab on the ribbon
- Select the body of the macro by clicking the blank space inside it (not the area where you can create new controls)
- Hit Ctrl + V to paste
- Paste an Access data macro using AXL
- Open the table you want to add the data macro to in design view.
- In the ribbon, click Create data macros, choose and click the right event. You can identify the event by looking at the event property of the datamacro tag, for example
<DataMacro Event="AfterInsert">
= On After Insert
- Select the body of the macro by clicking the blank space inside it (not the area where you can create new controls)
- Hit Ctrl + V to paste
Note that questions about non-VBA macros rarely contain the AXL necessary to paste it. Pasting AXL is somewhat contra-intuitive, as you don't paste it in a textbox and the result isn't text.