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March 2007 - Posts

Millions of Access template downloads, 5 new free databases

Can you believe, 3.5 million Access templates were downloaded from Office Online over the last 12 months?! This includes nearly 1 million Access 2007 and over 2.5 million Access 2000-2003 templates.Quite an uptake for such a new release. To capitalize Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:52 PM by clintc | 6 Comments
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Access 2007 conference and Disneyland - what a combination!

The Advisor team is putting on a Access 2007 content packed conference in Anaheim, California on May 6th - 10th. Erik, Tim, and Mor from the team will be present the latest about development and seek your feedback. This is a great opportunity to tell Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:35 PM by clintc | 2 Comments
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Two Access 2007 chapters from MS Learning books

There are a couple new chapters published on Office Online. 6 Key Considerations When Creating Access 2007 Databases (excerpt from Step by Step: Microsoft Office Access 2007 ) Design Great Looking Forms Using Access 2007 (excerpt from Plain & Simple: Read More...
Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 8:58 PM by clintc | 9 Comments
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Show your best work as a best practice in a Microsoft Case study

The marketing team is always looking for examples of people realizing their potential through best practices with Office System software. When we find people with best practices we write about it at www.microsoft.com/casestudies . For you as a developer, Read More...
Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 8:47 PM by clintc | 2 Comments
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How to improve the visuals of Access applications

I'm interested in what limitations you have experienced in trying to make your Access application look more modern. What are the limitations of Access forms and reports that keep you from creating applications that look like Web 2.0 apps? Some of the Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:53 AM by clintc | 22 Comments
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Link to Access 2007 KB articles and solution center

Janet (the Access team support contact) just forward me a great page that has links to the top support issues for installing and using Access 2007. If you haven't seen this page before (and I hadn't) it is very helpful. Definitely something to book mark. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:41 AM by clintc | 6 Comments
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How to pull in Amazon web service data into Access 2007

Today’s guest writer is Ric Lewis. Several weeks ago he started a general discussion about web services which turned out to be a popular post. This week he is providing the details of the books sample database. It would be sweet if someone takes this Read More...
Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 11:01 PM by clintc | 1 Comments

Where is it? Navigating Office ribbon commands

The marketing team has produced three great tools for helping you find commands in the ribbon for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Click on the Start the Guide link to launch the interactive tools. These tools visually show you how to find commands from the Read More...
Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 10:37 PM by clintc | 2 Comments
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Adds/cuts uncovered: The making of a new release

This is a fun time to work at Microsoft and particularly Office. One of the biggest benefits of working in Office is the opportunity to interact with some of the most experienced and proficient software talent in the world. Internal at Microsoft, the Read More...
Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 11:39 PM by clintc | 4 Comments
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Submit your own community template!

I recently stumbled across some interesting work done by our Office Online team. They allow YOU to submit non-code Word, Excel, and PowerPoint templates to Office Online. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/FX100595491033.aspx?pid=CL100632981033 Read More...
Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 4:15 PM by clintc | 6 Comments
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Cool As Ice uses Office Live and Access 2007 with custom ribbon

Alan Cossey recently sent me a overview of how Cool As Ice is using Office Live and Access to track process information. He has found a couple bugs we will fix in SP 1 but overall it is working nicely for them. I thought some of you might appreciate seeing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:32 PM by clintc | 19 Comments

New RunCommands in Microsoft Office Access 2007

This probably isn't interesting to many of you but here is a list of all new runcommands in Access 2007. AddFromOutlook AnchorBottomLeft AnchorBottomRight AnchorBottomStretchAcross AnchorStretchAcross AnchorStretchDown AnchorStretchDownAcross AnchorStretchDownRight Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:09 PM by clintc | 0 Comments
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VBA Functions and RunCommand code samples sites

I recently came across in an internal newsgroup a couple great sites that provide lots of code samples for expressions and runcommands. You might find this useful. Terry Wickenden's web site has lots of examples of RunCommands: http://www.accessruncommand.com Read More...
Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 3:14 PM by clintc | 1 Comments
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