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New Vehicle Maintenance and Expense Reports database available
09 January 08 09:15 PM
We just published two new Access 2007 templates that are now available on Office Online. Expense Reports Create an expense reporting database for your business to track and approve expenses in addition to printing reports. Vehicle Maintenance Create a Read More...
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Charitable Contributions Templated
08 January 08 11:32 PM
For three months this fall we were fortunate to have Anshul Tandon working on our PM team as an intern.  Anshul has now gone back to Louisiana State University where he's a member of the senior class. During his time with us one of his tasks was 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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Millions of blog hits and template downloads
16 October 07 09:16 AM
.style1 { font-size: 18px; } The last couple days I have stumbled across some numbers that give you an idea about the popularity of our favorite desktop engine. 3 million hits on this blog last month 2.8 million 2007 template downloads world wide since 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...
Access 2007 Template (.accdt) Files
06 August 07 06:25 PM
The new template work we did in 2007 is awesome, but I know it is not obvious how you can customize the template experience. There was at least one question in the newsgroups about this already, so I thought I would offer this up here as well. Template Read More...
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Access 2007 Books List
28 February 07 10:39 AM
I did a quick search out on Amazon to get the list of current and upcoming titles for Access 2007. There are really a ton of great titles out there from lots of different publishers. Content ranges from a complete Access reference like Microsoft® Office Read More...
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Easy Settings for New Databases
15 June 06 03:06 PM
This is a quick post on a slick new way to make sure that all of your new databases are set up just as you like. I'm running a little behind on the next regular post as the netcard in the machine I use to build the screenshots expired, so that will be Read More...
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Creating Schema
14 March 06 03:16 PM
One of the most basic tasks in Access is creating somewhere to put data - designing schema. My goal for today was to run through the basic schema creation tools, and to leave the new "complex data" schema creation for next time, but in looking at the Read More...
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...
The Issues Tracking Application in Detail
09 February 06 10:21 AM
The Issues tracking application is a great example of the set of tracking apps mentioned last time. It is quite simple - only 2 primary tables (for Issues and Contacts), a few forms, and several reports. One of the goals for the tracking apps was to make Read More...
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Tracking Application Overview
06 February 06 10:48 AM
Access 12 and Windows SharePoint Services v.3 will enable out of the box “tracking applications” that can span the client and server or can run standalone on the client. A “tracking app” is a small data application that adds database functionality to Read More...
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Getting Users Started in Access 12
03 February 06 12:33 AM
The first thing Access 12 users will see is a completely new getting started screen. Before Access 12, users are confronted with database concepts as soon as they boot the application - they need to understand object types immediately, and data types Read More...
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Overview of Access 12
07 November 05 10:43 AM
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 Read More...
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