Question

Is there a way in MS access 2007 to create a conditional formatting rule that will highlight any field that has been updated in the past 7 days?

Currently I have a rule that highlights any information that is added in the previous week by field value is between Now()-7 and Now(). I’d like to open up the option to modifying old entries that week and have those highlighting as well.

Thanks.

EDIT:
Essentially the database dates back from approximately 6 months. It tracks progress on projects and employees enter task details in a subform of the project.

Date       Employee    Task 
3/14/2012   David      Talked to Remou *about ms-access* 
8/1/2012    John       Solved world hunger 

** denotes updated information, and although the task happened on 3/14, I would like to display the changes with conditional formatting. Currently the only thing that would highlight is the 8/1 event.

Answer 1

By far the easiest way is to add an update date and a username. It won’t give you a highlighted text difference, but it will be much easier to implement. As an aside, I always add a created timestamp, created user, updated timestamp and updated user to any user maintained tables. It saves so much trouble, because Access does not automatically add this information.