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Follow up to Transparency Forms
05 May 08 05:47 PM
Renaud posted some comments to the previous post about transparency forms and made some really cool enhancements to the code, along with a note about using a class module to make it easier to use. This is how I use transparency forms in my own implementations Read More...
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Modal Dialogs with Transparent Backgrounds
28 April 08 05:20 PM
If you've taken a look at some web sites recently, you may have noticed an effect where items (usually images or videos) are brought to the foreground using an effect called a lightbox . The effect is used to dim (or sometimes lighten) the background Read More...
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Kiosk Forms
27 April 08 09:23 PM
One of my favorite tricks with forms in Access has always been what I call a kiosk form. A kiosk form is a form that takes up the entire screen and is one that you might find in a store or shopping center displaying information. For example, a real estate Read More...
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Code to make dates easier to read
08 February 08 08:19 PM
Today's author: Kerry Westphal, a program manager who works on the Access team. I like how many web 2.0 applications make it very easy to visualize complex data quickly. I found myself recently challenged with this task while working on a project where Read More...
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Interactive chart/form filtering code sample
13 January 08 10:38 PM
Here is another repost from my blog... Enjoy--Clint ----- One of the most enjoyable design challenges I have had over the last couple of years was redesigning how users can filter inside Access and Excel. The new filter dropdown menu and context menus Read More...
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My favorite keyboard commands
10 January 08 10:28 AM
A while back I published this article on my personal blog . I'm republishing it hear for the benefit of the broader audience. _________ I have a confession to make… I started hacking around in computers with Windows 3.1—never learned how to Read More...
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Access 2007 tips and tricks from the team
18 December 07 08:14 PM
Months ago I posted a three part tips and tricks series on Access 2007 on my personal blog . I recently got feedback that the series should be posted on the Access team blog--makes sense as this blog gets about 3 million more hits a month than my personal Read More...
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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...
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Sorting Nav Pane Objects by Description
03 October 07 06:35 PM
I've recently had some questions from users who used to sort their DBC by the description field and wanted to be able to do the same thing in the 2007 navigation pane. If you use this scenario, and you've tried in 2007, you'll know that the navigation Read More...
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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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Form Views and Subdatasheets
18 September 07 02:14 AM
Subdatasheets were added to Access 2000 but here's a tip to both add functionality to them and make them look pretty cool. This works in Access 2000 as well but can be a little hard to find. (Read: I just found out you could do this.) A subdatasheet is Read More...
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Live Web Cast from the Access team
12 September 07 11:02 AM
Mor Hezi, the Access product manager, is giving a web cast targeted an at new users Thursday September 13, @ 9:00 AM pacific time. This is a great opportunity to introduce Access to co-workers that want to learn more about how to track information. Microsoft Read More...
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Color Support in Access 2007
07 September 07 07:50 PM
This is the next installment in a series of posts about Access 2007 originally made by one of our developers on the Access team on his own blog that I'm moving here for the broader audience to enjoy. "I find color schemes that I just like and that just Read More...
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