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Tony D'Ambra of aadconsulting.com , maker of Access add-ins and switchboards, wanted to share his method for providing help to users when and where they need it. In Access, the functionality of tool tips has not changed since they were introduced in Access
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Today’s guest writer is Garry Robinson, Access MVP and proud new owner of past Smart Access journals. I asked him to tell the community about the new home for Smart Access. Hello Clint and Microsoft Access lovers, I am happy to announce that my company
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Access Training writer Colin Wilcox has just finished up a series of query courses, available for free on the Access 2007 training courses page on Office Online. Here’s the whole set: Find answers with queries Course What you'll learn Queries I: Get started
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Sure, that sounds like the frustrated outburst of an overworked technical writer, but when you build Access applications for others to use, you're pretty much on the hook to write the Help for them. Last month, we featured the “ How to synchronize combo
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Demo: Merge Access data with Word is now live on Office Online. I think this is a great short overview of a some what complicated process. Enjoy!
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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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Today’s guest writer is Josh Meisels, our intern this summer. He is heading back to school next week but wanted to share information about one of his summer projects. Access 2007 made a huge push to create useful, ready-to-use database templates that
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The article Create a tabbed form , and the companion sudden demo Watch this: Create a tabbed form , are now live on Office Online.
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The famous Allen Browne has published two new articles on Office Online. Validation rules Want to ensure that users enter valid data? Validation rules might be the answer. This article describes when validation rules are appropriate, and provides examples
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Mike Alexander an Microsoft MVP in Dallas is putting on an Access Power User Workshop October 20-21, 2008. The cost is $600 but Mike will offer a 30% discount for anyone that mentions they found it through the Access blog. Some of the topics that will
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The revised topic AddMenu Macro Action and the new topic Create custom menus and shortcut menus by using macros are now live on Office Online. Also, MVP Allen Browne is joining in the publishing fun with Calculated Fields . This is the first of four Allen
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Chris Downs has revised topic IIf Function . The changes were in response to customer comments—the topic has been expanded to include more examples as well as information about using the function in queries.
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Mark Gillis, who has written extensively for Access and Excel, recently published, Top 10 reasons to use Access with Excel . In this article, there are also five “sudden demos” that work together to build a Customer database solution based originally
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This is your chance to become famous! The Office Labs folks have released a cool site for help video. They have a free video recorder that makes the process really simple. There are already 15 Access videos available. Go make a quick demo and share it
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The revised topic Create a form that contains a subform (a one to many form) is now live on Office Online. The topic has been revised to include suggestions from the community, new graphics, rewritten procedures, and two new video demos.
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