How to transfer a Form from one Access database to another Access database using VBA

This procedure will transfer a form from one database to another. Copying objects such as tables, forms, reports, modules etc from one database to another database is simple but unnecessary and time consuming. This can be achieved quickly with this few lines of code. This code is used in MAARS implementation. Feel to free use it in your own program, however, please give proper credit to the MAARS team.

Public Sub TransferAFormToAnotherDB(srcFormName As String, destFormName As String, destDbFullPath As String)
   'Export only the Form definition to new database file given by destDbFullPath
   If Dir(destDbFullPath) <> "" Then
    DoCmd.TransferDatabase acExport, "Microsoft Access", destDbFullPath, acForm, srcFormName, destFormName, True
   End If
   
End Sub

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