opening a calculator in access

[lubbs65]

In access you can have the feature when for a date, there is a little calendar to click then you find the date there. Is there a way to do that for a number? I want someone to be able to click a button and have a calculator app open. Then, after typing in whatever equation, the result will automatically get put into the text box rather than having to either manually copy paste the result, or manually type the entire number into the textbox.

Worst case, I would want to create a button that opens up windows calculator (located in program files under accessories) instead of an access calculator

 

[Trevor G]

Sadly Access doesn't come with a calculator control. So you have to use the Shell command.

Private Sub Command45_Click()
Dim returnvalue, i
returnvalue = Shell("calc.exe", 1)
End Sub