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Access 2003 --> Access 2007 UI Guide
04 October 07 11:38 PM
The Access help team has just finished up our new interactive guide for users moving from 2003 to 2007. The guide is a flash based tutorial which allows you to select a command from the 2003 Access UI, and then see where it has moved to in the 2007 ribbon Read More...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 15 Comments    
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Ribbon Customization: Using a dynamicMenu to Show a List of Open Objects
27 September 07 10:06 PM
This is the third post in my short three-part series on ribbon customizations in Access. In the previous post, I showed how you could fill a dropdown with a list of the open forms in the database. This time, we'll fill a dynamicMenu control in a ribbon Read More...
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Ribbon Customization: Filling Dropdown Lists
25 September 07 05:35 PM
In the previous post, I showed you how to create a simple customization to close the currently open object. Continuing along the lines of adding object helpers to an application, we'll add two dropdown lists to a customization to work with forms. The Read More...
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Ribbon Customization - Closing the Currently Open Object
24 September 07 09:45 AM
In a previous post, I talked about how much I enjoy developing solutions that use the new Office Fluent Ribbon UI. Along those lines, this post is the first of three upcoming posts on some specific customizations I've used in some applications recently. Read More...
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Customizing the New Access UI
13 July 06 10:58 AM
I described the new Access UI in this post and this post way back in March. Now I'll run through how you program the ribbon UI using VBA. In a future post (we're still working out the content) I'll do another post on how to do the same thing using macros Read More...
Postedby Erik Rucker | 56 Comments    
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More Access UI - Ribbons for the Design Views
24 March 06 03:04 PM
In yesterday's post, I skipped the design view of the ribbons for all the objects simply to save space, but as one of the commenters noted these are quite interesting for developers. So here they are! Sorry I didn't get 'em in yesterday's post. Table Read More...
Postedby Erik Rucker | 13 Comments    
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New Office UI in Access 12
23 March 06 10:48 AM
At long last, I can show and discuss the new Ribbon UI in Access 12. There have been a few comments asking about this in the blog, and I haven't been able to show the whole thing yet (anyone that has seen the Beta 1 version of Access will find this layout Read More...
Postedby Erik Rucker | 26 Comments    
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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...
Postedby Erik Rucker | 12 Comments    
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