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It may come as a surprise, but not everyone gets the full install of Microsoft Office on their desktop at work. Many companies put Microsoft Office for Small Business (or Office Standard) on the PCs of a large group of workers, meaning that these users don't have Microsoft Access on their PC. While these users will still have access to the data stored in Access databases through ADO or DAO, they won't be able to use the database frontend. The features used in Figure 7-1 that placed a button on an Excel sheet and accepted parameters inside individual cells on a worksheet can be employed here. While they work, there may be times that you want to give a more polished frontend to the users, but a client (or your employer) does not want to purchase Access licenses for all users. You can accomplish some of the same Form functionality through an Excel feature called user forms. To see how this works, go to the Visual Basic Editor through Tools While you don't get as many built-in controls or the same features that you get in Access, you can still build a nice frontend to an Access database with a UserForm, which lets you:
Figure 10-1. Adding a blank UserForm object to an Excel workbook in the Visual Basic Editor![]() |
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