I’m quickly developing a love/hate relationship with Access. My little scuba inventory form is coming along nicely and I think it’ll be a thing of beauty when I’m finished with it. In the meantime I’m teaching myself a lot of cool stuff about Access — but I’m also forgetting stuff as I learn newer stuff.

One thing that I loved when I learned it — and now I can’t remember how the fuck it worked — is how to make checking a checkbox in a form trigger a date in another field in the same form.

I know it can be done because I did it about five hours ago and thought I was all spiffy for figuring it out. Then I deleted the form to rebuild it with a few refinements and when it came time to make the checkbox put the date in the other field — well, I drew a complete blank. And I’ve been drawing a blank ever since. And it’s really fucking pissing me the fuck off. A fucking lot.

So if any of you fine peoples out there can tell me how to do this, I’d sure appreciate it.

Fuck.