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Today's guest blogger is Michael Merlin, Lead Software Developer at Electronic Communities . I recently wasted an hour trying to set a field's Back Color property to the hex code generated by the color picker. I figured it out after some searching, but
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Mike Hnatt has generously extended to the Access blog readers a FREE version of Gladstone’s Access Report Writer . Traditionally, he has sold the developer version of the wizard for $995. The offer includes unlimited computer licenses, ability to change
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Mike Hnatt at Gladstone Solutions has a nifty Report Writer utility, available at http://gladstonesolutions.com/default.aspx . The utility lets you create reports and mailing labels quickly and easily, just by stepping through a few wizard-like screens.
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Today’s guest blogger is Edwin Blancovitch. Edwin is president of Advanced Developers.net , creators of Easy Payroll , a software package to manage your human resources, payroll, scheduling, time and attendance needs. When you're designing a form or report,
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Posted by Chris Downs, writer, Access IW Content Team Here’s a great tip suggested by Clint Covington. Using an expression and a Rich Text text box, you can create a traffic light indicator in an Access form or report, as in the following illustrations:
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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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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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Here's a question that comes up from time to time. The other day, someone internally asked about the difference between using a dot "." vs. a bang "!" for control references in a form in VBA. In other words, given a form - Form1, with
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Today's author: Kerry Westphal, a program manager who works on the Access team. I like how many web 2.0 applications make it very easy to visualize complex data quickly. I found myself recently challenged with this task while working on a project where
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The Office Online writers for Access have recently produced four cool video demos about designing reports. The effort should help the topic Modify a report become much easier for people to understand.
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This is the final post of a three part series on Access Tips and Tricks provided by members of the Access team. It was originally posted on my blog but I'm reposting here for the benefit of the broader audience. Custom AutoFormats You can create a custom
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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
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This is the next installment in a series of posts about Access 2007 originally made by one of our developers on the Access team on his own blog that I'm moving here for the broader audience to enjoy. "I find color schemes that I just like and that just
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This is the first installment in a series of posts about Access 2007 originally made by one of our developers on the Access team on his own blog that I'm moving here for the broader audience to enjoy. Up until this point, Access has supported command
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Great news, you can now redistribute and use the PDF and XPS addin with your Runtime solution. Our download page has been updated to reflect this fact. Best of all, you don't need a new copy of the runtime to take advantage of this. The Runtime's code
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