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Reader question about macros and VBA

A reader recently asked: Is there any way on Access 2007 to keep wizards and Switchboard Manager coding in VBA, any way developers "HAVE" to code for most applications. If a customer is buying an apllication from us, he is not going to trust what he bought?. Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007 4:26 AM by Clint Covington | 2 Comments

Tell me about your Inventory application

Sorry I haven't posted for a few weeks. I recently took an enjoyable NCL cruise with ports in Costa Maya, Santo Tomas De Castilla, Belize, and Cozumel. It was rewarding to spend a week playing hard with my lovely two little girls and Taunya. Love that!! Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:41 PM by Clint Covington | 2 Comments
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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 Clint Covington | 6 Comments
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Interactive chart/form filtering code sample

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 were lots of fun to explore different designs and think creatively Read More...
Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 5:45 AM by Clint Covington | 0 Comments

Softer datasheet visuals in 3 simple steps

Yesterday I was looking at one of our templates and noticed the grid felt pretty busy. I wanted to come up with a design that softens the harshness of the gridlines yet was very readable. Here is what I ended up with... There are three easy steps to create Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:05 AM by Clint Covington | 0 Comments

Design for filter favorites functionality in forms

Access 2007 introduces a ton of new filtering tools that make it much easier to cut and slice data in different ways. I’m very happy about the new experience and think developers will spend far less time building filtering functionality because of the Read More...
Posted Friday, December 08, 2006 5:04 PM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments

Ideas about creating great looking reports

Lately I have been thinking a bit about report design and how to make reports look great without writing lots of line drawing code. Being a sports fan I have always thought sports sites do a good job making great looking reports. Personally, I couldn’t Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 25, 2006 7:53 AM by Clint Covington | 4 Comments

Expense Reports database template

The past few days I have been working on an update to our Access 2000 Expense Report database. I'm interested if anyone has any feedback on how I can improve the design of the template. Let me give you a quick run through of the tables, forms, and reports. Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:16 AM by Clint Covington | 2 Comments
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Access 12 and Developers

Let me start by writing about two customer visits I made early in the development of Access 12 that proved to be a good representation of some of our developer customers. The first, a large enterprise organization in the health industry arranged a full Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 4:20 PM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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