MS Access VBA Programming – Responding To User Actions

In this video I’m going through module 2 of the “Donors and Donations” database course, https://vbahowto.com/ms_access_prog/donors_and_donations

You are going to find out solutions and ideas in this video such as:

-What are control events, and how can you benefit?
-How to reference form objects.
-How to set control properties
-How to obtain values entered into a control.
-How to use the DoCmd Object

You may want to check out my first video on this at

This course is a practical application of what I cover in my “Master MS Access VBA Programming” course at: https://vbahowto.com/course




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