can someone give me an example of what a calculated control is in ms-access?
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can someone give me an example of what a calculated control is in ms-access?
Say you add a text box to a form, normally it binds back to a specific field in a table, and its contents reflect the contents of that field. A calculated control does not refer to a specific field in a table, rather it displays the calculation done on one or multiple fields in the database. Sometimes, it may not use any fields.
Example of control source value from a calculated control
Presuming that there is a field called yearly salary in the table the form is based on.
A control that simply displays this field would have the following in the control source
Note the control source for a calculated control starts with an =