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Code to make dates easier to read
08 February 08 08:19 PM
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 Read More...
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Four new video demos about reports
16 January 08 10:40 PM
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. Read More...
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Tips and tricks designing forms and reports
11 January 08 01:02 AM
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 Read More...
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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...
Postedby Steven Greenberg | 1 Comments    
Color Support in Access 2007
07 September 07 07:50 PM
This is the next installment in a series of posts about Access 2007 originally made by one of our developers on the Access team on his own blog that I'm moving here for the broader audience to enjoy.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 Read More...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 4 Comments    
Image Buttons
04 September 07 09:38 PM
This is the first installment in a series of posts about Access 2007 originally made by one of our developers on the Access team on his own blog that I'm moving here for the broader audience to enjoy.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 Read More...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 9 Comments    
PDF & XPS Now supported in Access Runtime!
23 August 07 11:15 PM
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 Read More...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 15 Comments    
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...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 10 Comments    
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...
Report View
13 June 06 01:35 PM
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 Read More...
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Sort, Filter, and Group in Reports
19 May 06 01:26 PM
Last week we looked at sorting and filtering in forms. This week we'll look at sort, filter, and group in reports and see the new tools we've got to make building reports quicker and easier. The next post will look at the new interactive reports (instead Read More...
Postedby Erik Rucker | 2 Comments    
Better Looking Forms & Reports, Faster
25 April 06 02:53 PM
Building modern looking data forms & reports in Access 2003 can be difficult. Doing the heavy lifting is easy - there are great tools for building the data-bound portions of the form - but making the interface look great can be a challenge and can Read More...
Postedby Erik Rucker | 25 Comments    
WYSIWYG Report Authoring
05 April 06 12:57 PM
Access 12 has a variety of tools designed to make it both quicker and easier to author applications. The WYSIWYG report authoring view tools fit both bills. We saw a bit of them in the posts on Customizing the Issues Template and Starting from Scratch Read More...
Postedby Erik Rucker | 17 Comments    
Starting from Scratch
28 February 06 04:21 PM
Sorry for the extra time since the last post, I got run over with some other work when I got back and am just getting through that. Last time, we talked about modifying the issues tracking app . This time, we'll look at starting from scratch, but again Read More...
Postedby Erik Rucker | 11 Comments    
Customizing the Issues Template
13 February 06 11:14 AM
Last time, we looked at the Issues tracking application that will ship with Access 12 and provide a simple place for users to get started with Access. This time, we'll look at some of the new tools available to modify that application. Each of these toolsets Read More...
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