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The Expression Builder sports new features and simpler UI in Access 2010. You will spend less effort thinking about syntax and available functions/properties because IntelliSense features provide all the information you need as you type. Expression Builder
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Last week we blogged about changes to the new macro designer . I promised to write about IntelliSense but the first draft was lost in an unfortunate hard drive crash. I thought this is a good time to tell you about changes to the macro designer that encourage
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Today’s guest contributors are Kerry Westphal, Krunal Sheth, James Rivera, and Michael Tucker—from the macro designer feature crew. The Macro Designer is a revamped editor that allows you to automate repetitive tasks; wire together forms and reports
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About a month ago, we posted a Power Tip from Edwin Blancovitch about creating shortcut menus by using VBA . However, if for some reason you’re not interested in cracking open the Visual Basic Editor, there is a way to create shortcut menus (the menus
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One of my favorite tricks with forms in Access has always been what I call a kiosk form. A kiosk form is a form that takes up the entire screen and is one that you might find in a store or shopping center displaying information. For example, a real estate
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Thanks to Jeff Conrad on the Access test team for this: Office Online now has published four articles with material pulled from the Microsoft Office Access 2007 Inside Out book. This enormous book, published by Microsoft Press, is co-authored by Access
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The last regular post was on Sorting and Grouping in Reports , and that followed a post about Sort & Filter in Forms . This time, we'll go into the new Report View, which provides interactive reports at view time and so improves on the old Print Preview
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I've had a series of posts talking about the guts of Access 12, but haven't really talked about the gestalt of the product yet. It’s time to fix that. There are 3 key goals for Access 12. First, dramatically expand the number of people who are successful
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This is a consolidated post covering the main things that came up about security. Again sorry for the delay on getting this out. Also note the post has links to the pictures rather than in-place thumbnails. I'll get them moved to a better home where I
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