VB/Access help
 

I'm as proficient with Access as one can be without knowing a lick of VB.

Can anyone help me with figuring out how, when a particular button is clicked, it pulls up a form and automatically populates one of the fields in that form.

Second question, is there a way to make that "pop-up" form actually pop up in a specified area on the screen.

If the question is ambiguous, I'll be more specific when/if anyone responds.

This can be done 2 ways from what I remembe of VB and Access.

1) thru a macro (for those non vb coders)

1) start a new macro
2) set the first command to open a form (select the form you want to pop up) command is "openform"
3) set the next command to populate data "setvalue"
item is going to be: [Forms]![popupformname]![textboxtopopulate]
the value is whatever you want for the value.

2) in code. I'll leave this out for now unless someone asks how..

as for putting it in a particular place on the screen... I never got into doing that. I'm sure there is a way, try google. the google gods found everything for me when I needed it.

thanks - i'm still not sure #1 is the route i'm gonna go, but i'll try your suggestion.

In the event anyone else needs the answer to #2

'DoCmd.MoveSize [right], [down], [width], [height]
DoCmd.MoveSize 6000, 4000, 8800, 3800

Thanks for the tip Matthew330!