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Using Hyperlinks in Access: Display As Hyperlink and Is Hyperlink
09 January 08 08:47 PM
Those of you transitioning to Access 2007 from earlier versions of the product may notice the addition of a new property on the TextBox and ComboBox controls: Display As Hyperlink . You may wonder how this new property interacts with the existing Is Hyperlink Read More...
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Office Online Community Submitted Database Templates
07 January 08 10:43 PM
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 Read More...
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New Ribbon Reference: RibbonX for Dummies
06 January 08 02:12 AM
Those of you out there building custom Ribbon UI for Access/Office might be interested to know that the Dummies folks have recently released a guide for building Ribbon UI titled (as you might expect) " RibbonX for Dummies ".  The book Read More...
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Teaching users to fish--an online intro to queries
03 December 07 10:27 PM
Does this sound familiar? Smart Access user builds a cool database to help co-workers do their jobs more efficiently. Co-workers sing praises and advocate a raise for the smart Access hero. A few weeks later, end users ask hero to help create a couple Read More...
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AccessJunkie's updated 2007 content
29 November 07 07:28 PM
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 Read More...
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Access 2003 --> Access 2007 UI Guide
04 October 07 11:38 PM
The Access help team has just finished up our new interactive guide for users moving from 2003 to 2007. The guide is a flash based tutorial which allows you to select a command from the 2003 Access UI, and then see where it has moved to in the 2007 ribbon Read More...
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Using VBA code to open a file stored in the new Access 2007 Attachment field
30 August 07 10:30 AM
Someone asked me about using the Attachment data type in Access 2007 for a specific task. They wanted to use it as a simple data type where it would only be used to hold 1 file per record, and they wanted to be able to open the file in an external application Read More...
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Access 2007 Reports Demo
23 August 07 05:20 PM
I can't resist doing a quick post to let you all know about the new report demo that just got published to OfficeOnline. This is a quick little video, just a few minutes long, which gives a great overview of some of our new reporting features in 2007. Read More...
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Creating item templates for Ribbon customizations to use in Visual Studio
23 August 07 01:47 AM
Despite my passion for all things related to code, I've always had a soft spot for UI that is exciting both in its "coolness" factor and visual appeal. Along those lines, one of my favorite new features in Access 2007 is Ribbon Extensibility . Writing Read More...
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Set SharePoint List Template for Access Table
16 August 07 07:32 PM
There was an interesting question in one of the other posts that I thought I'd answer here to reach the broader audience: Doug said : If I export Northwind 2007 to WSS 3.0, the tables, like Customer, that contain 'Contact' type information get exported Read More...
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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...
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Formatting numbers into hexadecimal
09 August 07 01:17 AM
Even though class modules in VBA are not as powerful as their brethren in C++, C#, or VB.NET, I'm still a fan. Some time ago, I wrote an application which contained a class called ISearch and then subclasses which implemented this class using the Implements Read More...
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MkTree Function - Make sure that directories exist
01 August 07 01:05 AM
Recently, I wrote an application to manage files between directories and needed a function to make sure that the directory structure was the same between the source and destination files. VBA provides a function called MkDir which is used to create a Read More...
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Easing the transition from Access 2003 to 2007
12 July 07 09:59 AM
One of our Access MVPs, Oliver Stohr, has just released his new web site focusing on helping users make the switch from Access 2003 to Access 2007. Oli has some good tutorial content which should be useful for those of you who are just getting started Read More...
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Setting Rich Text Formatting Programmatically
02 July 07 02:00 PM
Someone asked about setting the formatting for rich text programmatically, and if there was an object model for the text formatting. There isn't, but the text is simply HTML, so it isn't hard to do through code. Here's a trick to see how our text is formatted Read More...
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