OK, this should be brainlessly trivial, yet I can’t manage to run.
MS Access. I have a report. Before that gets on the screen, a dialog box should appear, and the user should type a number.
I did this:
I put a text box in the report (the value from the user should appear there).
ControlSource has the same value as the name of the text box.
So a dialog occurs, very nice.
Now, to force the input to be a number, I set data type to number and even composed a entry mask. In the apposite test dialog, I can’t type characters, only numbers – great!
But when I execute the report, I always can enter any crap in that text box. Why doesn’t the entry mask apply to that entry box? I need the user to prevent chars to enter as there’s an automated calculation going on and that messes up everything.
I could design a form, but it looks like a total overkill to design a form for this!
What am I missing? Thanks
You have to design a form. The input box you are describing has no VBA module behind it in which you can write code; you therefore cannot customize it the way you want to.