About creating modules in right-to-left applications

Microsoft Office Access 2003

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About creating modules in right-to-left applications

Access supports these right-to-left characteristics in modules:

  • You can view and edit Visual Basic for Applications statements containing right-to-left or bidirectional text.
  • Statements are displayed left-aligned and in left-to-right reading order.
  • You can use right-to-left, left-to-right, or bidirectional text in module names.

Visual Basic for Applications

All Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications procedures and properties that provide right-to-left functionality to Access are listed alphabetically in the following table.

Procedures and properties Type
Calendar Property
DataType Property
Date, Date$ Function
DateAdd Function
DateDiff Function
DatePart Function
DateSerial Function
DateValue Function
Day Function
Format, Format$ Function
Format Property
GetOption, SetOption Methods
KeyboardLanguage Property
LabelAlign, TextAlign Properties
LabelX, LabelY Properties
Month Function
NumeralShapes Property
Orientation Property
ReadingOrder Property
ScrollBarAlign Property
TransferText Action/Method
Weekday Function
Year Function

For development of sophisticated right-to-left applications, you might want to take advantage of the numerous Microsoft Windows operating system application programming interfaces (APIs) that have right-to-left settings. For more information, you can go to the Microsoft Office Web site.