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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...

Postedby Zac Woodall | 5 Comments    

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

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...

Postedby Erik Rucker | 15 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Template, User Interface, SharePoint

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...

Postedby Erik Rucker | 17 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Report, Template, User Interface, Form, Layout View

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...

Postedby Erik Rucker | 13 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Template, User Interface

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...

Postedby Erik Rucker | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Template, User Interface

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...

Postedby Erik Rucker | 12 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Ribbon, Report, Macro, Template, User Interface, SharePoint