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Well, I'm back (and moving)

After a long hiatus, I'm back to blogging. And I also decided to move my blog elsewhere . Please do stop by... (Happy 4th of July, everyone!) Read More...
Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 12:30 PM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)
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All good things...

I have decided to pursue other interests and will no longer be able to maintain this blog. It was a very interesting experience, to say the least. :) Thank you for your time and all the comments! Take care, 3oF P.S.: I'll try to keep the posts around Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 2 Comments
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Access 2007's Improved Command Buttons

Up until this point, Access has supported command buttons with text or a picture, but never both at the same time. This has been a long standing request from users: the capability of showing both the caption and the picture. In Access 2007, you will notice Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

The New Import/Export Specifications UI

As I previously mentioned, we are now exposing Import/Export Specifications (Imex Specs) in the OM in a thorough manner. We also took the time to make importing and exporting less repetitive in the UI. In the past, to make use of Imex Specs, you had to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Customizing the Office Button Menu (aka File Menu) and No-Ribbon Custom Solutions

Even though most of the information on how to customize the Ribbon in Access 2007 is already out , there are two recurring question that I've been seeing being asked often: How can I customize the Office Button Menu (aka File Menu)? We allow you to show/hide Read More...
Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 2 Comments

The New Import/Export Specification OM

In previous versions of Access (such as Access 2003), you can save the steps from an import or export operation into what we call Import/Export Specifications (Imex Specs). After saving it, you can always load it back so you don't have to customize the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 6 Comments

Changing Default Control and Form/Report Settings

This is one of those features that almost nobody knows about because it isn't very discoverable. In Access 2007 (and earlier), you can change the default property values for any new controls in a form or report. Here are the necessary steps: Open/Create Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 4 Comments

The New Access 2007 Switchboards

Now that Access 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) is out, you will notice that we changed the Switchboard Manager functionality. Now that we have Disabled Mode and Embedded Macros , it was about time we revisited the switchboards that the Switchboard Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Quick Trick: Copying Embedded Macros from one Property to another

Now that we spent all this time talking about templates, how about we put to use something we learned about it in a totally unexpected way? Remember that we talked about how embedded macros are really represented as SaveAsText/LoadFromText alongside objects? Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 5 Comments

Templates: How to create your own

Now that we discussed extensively all about templates, we can talk about how this all this can be put at your service. You see, we will give you the capability (though not in the Access product itself - details will be forthcoming soon, hopefully) to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:00 PM by ThirdOfFive | 5 Comments

Templates: Programmability

Now that we talked about what Access 2007 templates are made of and how Access makes use of them to create brand new databases, it begs the question as to what you can programmability-wise. The answer to that question lies in the fact that we changed Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

In case you are having issues installing Office 2007 Beta 2 Techinical Refresh (B2TR)

For troubleshooting Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) installs, you might want to check out this Knowledge Base (KB) article . The most common problem that I heard so far is the that to install the B2TR update, you need at least 2 gigabytes Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 4:00 PM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Templates: SharePoint comes into Play

When you go create your new database from a template using Access 2007, you will notice a checkbox right by the OK button and path where you will create the file. By checking the “Create and Link your Database to a Windows SharePoint Services Site”, instead Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 4 Comments

Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) is out

I haven't seen any news about this yet, but it's already available for download. Check out this post on some of the changes in B2TR. 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 Technical Refresh Important : Prior to applying this Beta 2 Technical Refresh update, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:02 AM by ThirdOfFive | 2 Comments

Templates: The Template Store

No, that is not a new franchise opening near you. So far we talked a lot about what templates are, how we use them and all, but where are they? Well, they are actually in different locations in your hard drive. Do you think we would make this easier on Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 1 Comments
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