Got a question for all you Office programming gurus. I've got an Access 2002 .mdb database I've been working on (Access 2000 file format) to store a variety of data (customers, job/orders, products, vendors, salespeople), and I'm trying to set up a mail merge with Word. When I open the data source in Word 2002, only 7 of my 16 queries show up in the dialog box - the others are missing. When I open the same .mdb file as a mail merge data source in Word 97, all the queries are there, and the one in particular that I'm trying to use that is missing in Word 2002 works just fine in Word 97. None of these queries are doing anything too exotic - all just select queries with various joins - a few have criteria based on form controls, but I'm not worried about those. A couple are joining tables with other queries, but most are just joining tables. Any ideas what's going on here? I'd rather not post the actual database in question, but I'm running out of ideas. Jeff Sand jsand42 at earthlink dot net

Hi, I'm trying to rewrite this site of mine using CSS instead of tables for tha layout. I'm trying to start off with the top lighter-green header bar. Here is my test site. And here is some of the CSS in question: #headerL { background: #99ff99; float: left; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; } #headerR { text-align: right; background: #99ffCC; margin: 0; padding: 5px; font-weight: normal; } Does anyone know why the first line in the text example does not align:right in IE5 like it should? I've tried it the opposite way, floating the right-hand side instead, and it will still align the text the wrong way. Either way works fine in Mozilla. Any ideas? Jeff Sand jsand42 at earthlink dot net

1 cent per $1? My local district operates on a budget (this year) of around $110 million. Of that, around $75 million is the education fund, which pays teacher salaries, benefits, classroom supplies, textbooks, etc. $12 million or so is operations, and the rest is transportation (busses), debt payment, and other stuff. So, rougly two orders of magnitude off from your numbers. Jeff Sand jsand at interaccess dot com

Definitely a second vote for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Lately I've been enjoying their second album (The Christmas Attic) even more than the first. They also have a DVD available of their TV special from last year. Contrary to popular belief (and KaZaA), TSO has never collaberated with Metallica. People just have a bad habit of mis-naming songs on Kazaa. Jeff Sand jsand at interaccess dot com

Colin Davies wrote: Colin Davies wrote: America could have offered a peace to Germany by unfreezing the German American assets, instead of joining the Atlantic Charter with great Britain. That would require honesty on the part of Adolph Hitler, which is a fallacy. Name one peace treaty that Hitler ever honored. Colin Davies wrote: IMHO: Roosevelts signature to that was the first American shot in the WW2. But then his election promise was "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." I don't understand, are you saying that a war declared upon the United States by Germany was a "foreign war"? Germany seemed to have enough problems crossing the English Channel, Let alone the Atlantic. Germany was chipping away at their air & sea defenses first. This is basic military strategy, not any deficiency of the German army. Jeff Sand jsand at interaccess dot com

I've got a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse combo (one receiver for both). I think it was the first combo set they made, "Cordless iTouch Keybaord" and "Cordless Wheel Mouse". I've loved it ever since I got it about 3 years ago. Keybaord takes two AA's and lasts about 6 months without changing, and the keys have a nice soft feel to them. Mouse takes two AAA's and lasts 4 months or so on a set. Really the only complaint I have is that they tend to lose reception if the receiver is vertically lower than either the mouse or keyboard. Other than that it's been great and I can't recommend it enough. I also got a Logitech cordless optical mouse for my mom's new box that I built, and I don't like it as well. Goes through batteries about once every 1-2 months and seems to have worse reception. Stick with the ball. Jeff Sand jsand at interaccess dot com

Colin Davies wrote: The thing about the US's reaction after Pearl Harbor that has always confused me is. "Why enter the African Europe war also ?" The US could have kept it's war to just one member of Axis, and didn't need to go to war with Germany and Italy as well. A) Germany declared war on us immediately after we declared war on Japan, not the other way around. 2) Conspiracy theories aside, had the U.S. not become involved in Europe, Hitler would have invaded England. Then we'd be left with three enemies and no strong allies (except maybe the Soviet Union, for a while anyway). Germany controlling all of Europe and Africa would not have been good for anyone, including the United States. D) Let's say we had just fought Japan in the Pacific and left Europe alone. Do you really think Hitler wouldn't have crossed the Atlantic and attacked a nation he declared war on? Looking out for our interests only would have cost us allies and is the reason Dubya is losing allies as we speak. Jeff Sand jsand at interaccess dot com

If I have a worker thread (let's call it thread B) and I have a control on my main window whose WndProc() is in the main application thread (thread A), and I use SendMessage() to the control from thread B, is the message processed in thread A or in thread B? What about with PostMessage()? Jeff Sand jsand at interaccess dot com

Nick Parker wrote: Also, how do you access the methods of the pointer to the object once it has been passed. I understand if you just want to say RTFM. Thanks again. There are two ways to access methods through a pointer. For example, you have a class CFooClass with member function bar(). Normally, of course, we say: CFooClass foo; foo.bar(); Now declare a pointer to CFooClass: CFooClass* pfoo = &foo; // pfoo is address of foo Two methods of accessing member functions: // These two lines do the same thing (*pfoo).bar(); // Method 1 - use the dereference operator pfoo->bar(); // Method 2 - use the -> operator I generally prefer method #2 is it's somewhat prettier to look at, but it really doesn't matter. Jeff Sand jsand at interaccess dot com