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# Vladimir Cvajniga said on December 13, 2007 7:24 PM:

Will there be full-graphics export (lines, frames, true text format) from Access 14 reports to Word DOC? My users desperatelly need to edit reports, compose them to extensive documents, etc.

# clintc said on December 13, 2007 9:06 PM:

Thanks for the suggestion Vladimir. As much as I would love to talk about what we are doing we can't comment about any 14 features at this point.

# Vladimir Cvajniga said on December 14, 2007 1:46 AM:

Clintc: When will you tell us what you're doing? It may be a little bit late if you don't have response from community.

# clintc said on December 14, 2007 3:03 AM:

It will be a few months before we start talking about Access 14. it wouldn't be helpful to share more plans as the product is still going through evolution changes as we iterate.

The team does talk to lots of people from the community ranging from small businesses, enterprises, developers, end users, and MVPs--most of the conversations happen under NDA or are general discussions about suggestions they would like to see.

For example, next week I will spend 3 days meeting with Access developers and getting their feedback on key pain points and learning more about their scenarios. (see the post on Chicago last week).

This blog has also been a source of feedback from direct questions the team has asked about different scenarios. See http://blogs.msdn.com/access/archive/tags/Access+14/default.aspx.

We also conduct regular usability studies and monthly focus groups with different developer audiences.

The team conducts weekly call downs to people using our templates to get a different perspective from end users (which is very different than the developers that comment on this blog).

We occassionally bring in developers to particiapte in developer kitchens where they get to work with builds for a few days and give us feedback on the direction of the product and areas we need to invest more in. These events are always fun.

The biggest challenge is condensing the feedback into consumable bits and prioritizing the vast amount of things we could do.

If you have a great idea you want to share with the team--use the email link above and send it our way. We love hearing suggestions but unfortunately can't talk about if it would fit into the release.

# Vladimir Cvajniga said on December 14, 2007 7:48 AM:

Clintc: Thank you very much for detailed explanation. I have some notes to be sorted out before I send them to you. I'll also check some web sites & forums to get what I need before I send an e-mail to you.

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