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My main programming experience is with access, but now I have to develope in excel. However I used subforms alot but don't see how I can do the same or similar in excel.
What I'm trying to do is have a subform that shows notes. Each note has a date initials and body. On the main form is a button to add notes.
So when you open the main record page you see the ongoing activity without
the need to change pages and you can scroll back through the history of notes
.
Is it possible to have a scrollable text area as long as it can show multiple notes?
I`ve already spent quite a bit of time developing an application in Excel and
don't really want to switch to Access at this point as most of the rest of the app requires Excel.
Not looking for complete code but at least pointing me in the right direction.
Thanks
Pete

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