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Is Office 2016 available (in UK) on CD/DVD, I can only seem to find download licence keys. If yes some links would be good. I'm looking for Pro but could manage with Home and Biz. TIA

I have the following which works well but I'm sure there a couple of API's which would do the job more smoothly Private Function GetControlPosRefForm(ByVal Ctrl As Object) As POINTAPI 'Returns the position of a Control, possibly nested inside Containers, with reference to the coordinates...

Windows 8.1 installed as described in http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1740371 Office 2007 is installed and fully updated. Three Windows accounts; 1. A normal user account with a normal sign-in 2. An Admin account with a hotmail sign-in 3. A spare Admin account with a normal sign-in...

Win 8.1 Events log shows that restore points are being created regularly the most recent I have found on 06 Nov 2014 ('Scheduled' variety) however when I go to System Restore I am advised that No restore points have been created. The Win 8.1 installation is in a dual boot configuration with...

If Outlook is installed/ setup and I click on the Send To option on the file menu of Excel or Word and choose attach to email then Outlook is 'automated' to send the email. Question 1 On Windows 7 if Outlook is not installed/ setup and replaced by the Windows Live Mail app as the default email...

I have a new machine (Dell T3600) delivered with Win 7 Pro. I purchased a Win 8 Pro OEM CD and setup a dual boot which is working just fine however; I would like to know how I can undo this and return to the simple boot to Win 7 Pro without damaging the existing Win 7 Pro installation. There is...

Ref. thread222-1598800 Andy (Groom) this one has just turned up; http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?730409-AutoComplete-(Using-the-IAutoComplete-interface) I thought it may be of interest...

I'd like to produce reports created using standard vb6 print commands to an XPS file with a specified name, without the the Microsoft XPS Document Writer prompting me for a file name. The Microsoft XPS Document Writer printer object will accept a file name as exemplified in the following code...

I'm trying to simulate logical AND and OR on Currency variables. So far I have the code below but it is not quite working e.g. CurrencyAND(1,3) is returning 0.9488 instead of 1; CurrencyOR(1,3) is returning 3.0512 rather than 3. Could be I have a couple of the Hi/Los reversed or is it more...

When a ComboBox is dropped the dropdown window is displayed 'on top' of the underlying Form (or Container) so it is not clipped if it extends beyond the Form's (Container's) borders. Can I make a ListBox behave in the same way?

As touched upon in thread222-1695412 I am finding the following code runs significantly faster (ide and exe) under Win 7 64 bit when 'run as administrator' Option Explicit Private Declare Function QueryPerformanceFrequency Lib "kernel32" (lpFrequency As Currency) As Long Private Declare...

The following is giving me a mad morning; List1.Sorted = True set at design time Private Sub Command2_Click() List1.AddItem "TEKTIPS / MALTON" List1.AddItem "TEK-TIPS / MENWITH HILL" List1.AddItem "TEKTIPS / MEXBOROUGH" List1.AddItem "TEK-TIPS / NAFFERTON" List1.AddItem...

Using a MAPI email routine much like the one I posted in thread222-1196390: Trying to get Visual Basic to send E-mails, please help. under Win 7 All is fine unless; When run in a program under the Vb6 IDE or as an exe AND the IDE or the exe have been started 'run as administrator', the routine...

After the update projects including ms common controls 6 (MSCOMCTL.OCX) gave an 'Object library not registered' message during load (into IDE) and all progressbars etc. turned into picture boxes. The 'Object library not registered' message also appeared in a new IDE Project when trying to add...

with ref to thread222-1555845 Andy (Groom), I wonder, did you make any headway into 'custom autocomplete lists' as suggested by HarleyQuinn's 'Here' link to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776884(VS.85).aspx or can anyone else give me a clue as to how it may be done from vb6; my...

I am concerned that developing vb6 dlls could be filling up the host computer's registry with stranded information. I may have several questions this is the first. Is this true? When compiling a dll the dll will always have a new class ID unless the Binary Compatibility option is ticked. This...

Further to thread222-1518176 all is well with multi-monitors for me now except that conventional ToolTipText does not display in the intended position for Labels and Images when they are on a secondary monitor. So now I'm looking at implementing API based ToolTips (again!); that has been going...

Dear all, VB Forms displayed with Aero enabled are a little larger (all round) than their properties suggest. I guess there is an API call (or a pair of them) which returns the width/ height of the fat borders; anyone know what it is?

Dear All, The function GetMonitorForForm defaults, as required, to the primary display when the vga lead to the secondary monitor is unplugged; however when the secondary monitor is simply powered down (Switched off and left plugged in) it behaves as if the secondary is still active. Is there a...

1. Vista Utimate SP1 2. Vb6 SP6 3. A pretty common routine to increase/ specify the dropped down height of a Combo box; Public Declare Function MoveWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal nWidth As Long, ByVal nHeight As Long, ByVal bRepaint As Long) As...