October 2008 - Posts
Response to project Huron has been really positive--we have quite a few people signed up for the beta. It seems people have an interest in storing data in the cloud. Here are some additional video demos and resources: Liam's PDC talk Huron – Access Desktop
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Today's guest writer is Neha Monga, Access PM in charge of the runtime. The Access runtime is a valuable part of Access - Developers can distribute their rich Access solutions to users without requiring a full installation of Access. In the Office 2007
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The video Watch this: Highlight values on a report by using conditional formatting is now live on Office Online. Enjoy! Edited: October 31, 2008--updated link with correct URL.
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Today’s guest writer is Liam Cavanagh from the Sync Framework and SQL Services team. They are doing some cool stuff that allows Access developers to store their app and data in the cloud using SQL Server Data Services. Liam is looking for people
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Last week some super smart ladies on the Access Program Management team wanted to learn more about Access users and what fuels their passion for the product. The discussion reminded me about a marketing class I attended on value propositions . The instructor
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Peter's Software has recently released a free utility for printing labels . Here is how they describe it: Label Saver is a freeware MS Access module that will allow your users to specify a label printing start position and a number of copies of each label
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The Access team wants to learn more about who reads our blog, perceptions of Access in your organization, and what new features people would find valuable. We would appreciate it if you help us out by taking this short 12 question survey . Thanks
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Update 10/16/2008: We have now closed submissions for the 2007 SP2 Beta. A big thanks to all the folks that signed up! We are planning the release of Office 2007 SP2 in the first half of calendar year 2009. The beta is expected to be available in the
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Interested in a sneak peak at our next version of Access? We are holding a developer kitchen on the Redmond Campus, November 10-13, 2008. This conference will focus on building Access 14 applications using our latest builds. We are looking for Access
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The Access team is looking to make improvements to the form design experience by helping users get started building powerful and interesting forms. Most Access professionals have a set of forms that they re-use quite a bit. What we are interested in specifically
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