title: How to create an automatically managed "last update" field with Microsoft Access
body: <p>Originally I thought to ask if there would be an easy way to provide an automatically managed last update field with MS Access.</p>
  
  <p>After some googling I found following approach:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Private Sub Form_Dirty(Cancel As Integer)
  
     Me.Last_Update = Date()
  
  End Sub
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which seems to do the job. I thought I'd share it with others too (and if somebody has some good points that should be considered, feel free to share them)</p>