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Free report wizard offer from Gladstone
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 Read More...
Check out Gladstone's Report Writer for Microsoft Access
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. Read More...
Free Tool to Clear Test Data From Your Database
Access MVP Bob Larson has released a utility that you can use to clear test data from your database. I’ll let Bob tell you about it: It is a “database reset tool” which is for anyone who has been developing a database and they’ve got test data in it and Read More...
Review of ribbon design tool
Access MVP Garry Robinson and editor of vb123.com recently wrote a nice review article on IBDE Ribbon Creator . You all should find it enlightening. http://www.databasejournal.com/features/msaccess/article.php/3803996/Making-Your-Own-Access-2007-Ribbon.ht Read More...
How to discover what Access files are in your org
I got this request from a customer who is trying to analyze their environment as it pertains to Access and  Excel files: Can we use WSH and VBScript to get this type of basic information out of files in an automated fashion? Both MS Access and Excel Read More...
Total Access Analyzer 2007 Preview
One thing about being on the Access team that I enjoy is seeing some of the great work being done in the Access community. Among the forefront of this community is FMS , who is the leading developer of Access add-ins. FMS recently announced a preview Read More...
New update for Ribbon Creator
Avenius Gunter's Ribbon Creator just got better. Earlier this month he released version 1.1016 with a number of changes: New Features: Callback "getVisible" integrated in Ribbon XML. Callback "getEnabled" integrated in Ribbon XML. Read More...
UI Builder for Access v.3.0 Released
Brandon Smith-Daigle has recently released the 3.0 update for his UI Builder tool that helps Access developers to build customized user experiences in Forms without coding the VBA themselves.  This tool is compatible with older versions of Access Read More...
Goldsoft tools for Access Developers
Ken Hockley has recently released his Goldsoft suite.  These tools aim to increase Access developer productivity by helping to reduce the amount of time spent building necessary application plumbing so that developers can focus their effort on producing Read More...
Access Ribbon Customizer
One of our Access support leads, Claton Hendricks, has put together a tool he calls Access Ribbon Customizer for Access developers who need to build custom ribbons. This tool is slightly reminiscent of (though not exactly the same as) the built-in command Read More...
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