Recently, someone posted a comment on IT Impact Inc.'s blog asking how to get SharePoint to remember his password when he logged in via Access. He wanted to avoid having to log in every time. Ben Clothier, a Senior Access Developer at IT Impact, knew the answer. He wrote a detailed blog post (with plenty of screenshots) that we'd like to share with you. ITImpact has been building custom databases with Microsoft Access since 1994, serving customers around the world. Ben Clothier has been Microsoft...

The ControlTipText property is usually associated with providing static information. But it can also be used to display real-time info in a wide range of scenarios.

...

When Donna took on the role of Director at Choral Arts (a non-profit singing ensemble), she inherited a disorganized database with redundant, unreliable data. We helped Donna devise a data model and import her data into a new set of normalized tables.

...

Our good friends at accesshosting.com are offering 30-day trials of two Access "cloud" solutions. Curious? Here's the deal...

...

When you need to use Excel to analyze data in an Access database, you have several options: you can copy and paste the data, create a data connection from Excel, or export the data to an Excel file. Your best choice depends on what you want to do. Copy/Paste If you just need some values from Access one time -- and you don't care whether the data changes in Access later on -- copy/paste is a quick and dirty way to get the job done. Export If you don't care whether the data changes but expect to get...

Many of you search Office.com for help using date functions in Access. Perhaps you want to select some portion of a date (e.g., the year). Maybe you want to format the display of date/time data, or find the difference between dates. In this post we'll consider each of those scenarios and see how a date function can do the job.

...

I created an online poll to find out what you think this blog should feature.

...

In part 2 of this series, we considered using LIKE and wildcards in query criteria to find inexact matches. Good stuff - but what if you could get the query to apply criteria that are supplied when it is run? What if you could make a query ask for input? Good news! You can make a query ask for input, and it's actually very easy.

...

Access has powerful tools that you can use in query criteria to retrieve inexact matches: wildcard characters, and the LIKE operator.

...

Queries are a fundamental part of any database: among other things, they are the way you ask questions about your data. If you think of a query as a question, query criteria are your way of making the question as specific as possible. So a question like "What are my contacts' birthdays?" can be more like "Whose birthdays are coming up next month?"

...