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Access 2007 tips and tricks from the team
18 December 07 08:14 PM

Months ago I posted a three part tips and tricks series on Access 2007 on my personal blog . I recently got feedback that the series should be posted on the Access team blog--makes sense as this blog gets about 3 million more hits a month than my personal Read More...

Postedby clintc | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Navigation Pane, User Interface, SharePoint

Sorting Nav Pane Objects by Description
03 October 07 06:35 PM

I've recently had some questions from users who used to sort their DBC by the description field and wanted to be able to do the same thing in the 2007 navigation pane. If you use this scenario, and you've tried in 2007, you'll know that the navigation Read More...

Postedby Zac Woodall | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Navigation Pane, User Interface, Code, Query

Navigation pane tip of the day
20 August 07 03:29 PM

I learned a new trick today from Michael the PM for the navigation pane. We have heard a few of you have missed the ALT D shortcut to open an object in design. As you know, ALT in ribbon apps now allows you to access ribbon shortcuts. Next time you want Read More...

Postedby clintc | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Navigation Pane

New Access 2007 Articles on Office Online
13 August 07 06:33 PM

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 Read More...

Postedby Zac Woodall | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Report, Macro, Navigation Pane, Template, User Interface, Reference, Form, Layout View

Filtering the Navigation Pane
19 May 06 01:43 PM

In an earlier post, I showed the Navigation Pane , which shows all of the objects in the current database. The Nav Pane works great, is easy to expand and collapse sections, and so on, but the list can still get long enough to be hard to find things quickly. Read More...

Postedby Erik Rucker | 22 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Navigation Pane, Filter

Better Navigation in Less Space
21 November 05 10:51 AM

One of the areas we worked hardest at in Access 12 was in simplifying the UI and using available screen real estate. As you know in Access 2003 new objects are opened in a new window. It is not uncommon for a simple Access application session to have Read More...

Postedby Erik Rucker | 14 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Navigation Pane, User Interface

Security followup
01 November 05 09:24 PM

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 Read More...

Postedby Erik Rucker | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Security, Macro, Navigation Pane