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Fri 27 Apr 2007, 12:11 Delegate Susan said...

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Vba password checking and input mask

I have a non visible text box on my form called formpassword. I want to display an inputbox and for the characters the person types to appear as asterisks. The following code works but the password is not displayed as asterisks. Please can you tell me how I can do this?

Me.formpassword.InputMask = "password"
Me.formpassword = InputBox("Please enter password")

If formpassword <> "abc" Then
MsgBox "Incorrect password"
DoCmd.Close
Exit Sub
End If

Thanks

Sue

Wed 16 May 2007, 11:09 Trainer Garry said...

RE: vba password checking and input mask

VB.net provides a template for a login form and all your going to have to do is a little bit of coding to make it all happen.

An article on this is as follows.

http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_login_form.html

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