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Today’s guest writer is Garry Robinson, Access MVP and proud new owner of past Smart Access journals. I asked him to tell the community about the new home for Smart Access. Hello Clint and Microsoft Access lovers, I am happy to announce that my company
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Last week Joel Graff shared his story on how he used Access to track salt usage for the Illinois Department of Transportation. Some of you wanted to know more about the custom class that he uses to ease the creation of similar forms. Joel has agreed to
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Today’s guest blogger is Joel Graff. Joel is a field engineer with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) . He’s sharing how he utilized Access to prove the efficiency of their drivers and equipment in managing winter road conditions. This last
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Mike Alexander (Excel MVP) recently sent me a very cool trick that I hadn’t seen before. He uses some simple hackery and trickery to get data bars in a query. This is the first installment of a long series about how Access can be used to create cool dashboards.
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We are always proud of the tools customers make and sell around Access. Our friend Brandon send this update in along with a special offer for the blog readers. OpenGate Software launched a new tool to help Access users create their database schema using
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One thing about being on the Access team that I enjoy is seeing some of the great work being done in the Access community. Among the forefront of this community is FMS , who is the leading developer of Access add-ins. FMS recently announced a preview
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I’m looking to put together a page listing information about active Access user groups. Can you help? One of the things I love about working on Access is the community. It is chuck full with people who are passionate about the product and the changes
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This is your chance to become famous! The Office Labs folks have released a cool site for help video. They have a free video recorder that makes the process really simple. There are already 15 Access videos available. Go make a quick demo and share it
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I'm sure you've all noticed that I've been less than active on the blog lately. I'm sorry for the lull, and the reason is that change is afoot. After 7.5 years working on the data team here in Office I've decided to make a change. Monday 3/3
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Community submitted templates are now live on Office Online!! "Er?" You say, "what has this to do with me?" I'm so glad you asked!! For the first time ever, there is now a Microsoft hosted service through which you
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Our friends in the UK Access User Group always put on a great national Seminar. It looks like the sessions this year were packed with helpful content and insight from developers. I found the following decks interesting: Working with Access 2007 and SharePoint
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One of my Access PM compatriots, Steve Greenberg, asked if I would share this with you folks: Hello, My name is Steven Greenberg and I’m a Program Manager on the Microsoft Access team. I’ve been at Microsoft for seven years, and I transitioned over to
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Our very own Access Junkie, Jeff Conrad, has updated his 2007 Help links and FAQ. These are great resources for 2007 info. Jeff is an engineer on our test team who is very active in the newsgroups, and he's tried to capture answers to the questions that
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Some members of the Access team are going to be attending the 2008 Office Developer Conference being held in San Jose, CA from Feb 10-13. It will still be pretty early for us to be talking about the next version so most of the content will be 2007 focused,
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The Microsoft Access team is evaluating opportunities to help application developers and consultants grow their businesses and enable an even broader distribution of custom Access applications. If you have an Access application that you sell, tell us
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