Today we released runtime builds for Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Thai. The other languages are working their way through the process. Enjoy!

Some of our customers have reported problems printing mailing labels on contacts, customers, employees tables in the 2007 templates. The contacts type Address field was defined as a Memo data type. Unfortunately, the report mailing label wizard filters our memo fields from the list of fields. This was a pain point with many users who couldn't figure out why the Address field didn't show up when using the report Label Wizard. Jeff Conrad even created a special FAQ page to explain to users why they...

I know lots of you are very anxious to get your hands on this build. You can go download the SP1 runtime. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D9AE78D9-9DC6-4B38-9FA6-2C745A175AED&displaylang=en This version of the Access 2007 Runtime contains files whose versions are slightly higher than the level of the same files that are updated by Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). For additional information about Office 2007 Service Pack 1 and the Access 2007 issues fixed by Office 2007...

There is a good article about SharePoint on Network World. Here are some of the more interesting quotes: "Microsoft's SharePoint Server is on a billion dollar juggernaut to potentially become the next must-have technology, offering companies tools for building everything from collaborative applications to Internet sites..." "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is the fastest growing product in the company's history and seems to have as many uses as a Swiss Army knife. Its...

Avenius Gunter's Ribbon Creator just got better. Earlier this month he released version 1.1016 with a number of changes: New Features: Callback "getVisible" integrated in Ribbon XML. Callback "getEnabled" integrated in Ribbon XML. Tab Finish: Option to disable the Help Button on the ribbon. Tab Finish: Open the selected Database. Tab Finish: Option to replace an existing modul "basCallbacks" in a database. ButtonGroups ButtonGroup Editor for Button Togglebuttons Control...

There is a good review of Office Live Workspace just published by PCWorld. They mention our favorite Office application, Microsoft Access... “Office Live Workspace supports Excel files, too, though none of the templates available when we reviewed the site were Excel files. On the other hand, the service doesn't support Microsoft's Access database format, which is too bad--Access users looking to delegate data entry and to simplify reporting tasks might benefit greatly from an online database-sharing...

We build a lot of sample applications on the team to test stuff. Jeff Conrad is putting together a database to track the NFL season and needed a way to make it impossible to create multiple records of the same teams playing each other in the same week and same year. He created a compound index on the table. You supply a name for the index in the Index Name column. You then list all the fields you want to use for this compound index in the Field Name column. It’s very important that for the...

I'm getting regular pings about the runtime. The update is imminent but I can't specify an exact date (you never know when a recall class bug is found). The update will include all fixes for SP 1 and release of the international languages. Stay tuned and we will post more information on this blog as soon as it is available for download. Thanks for your continued patience,

The power of the pivot table Christine Harrell gives some tips on pivot tables in Access ThickToast get's some props Garry Robinson's Thicktoast Access based Basecamp product gets featured on the 37signals blog. Researchers use Access to make case for standardized analysis of cardiac imaging Lorenzo adapted the results into Microsoft Access. "It was very useful to use since I had to constantly analyze the data in many different ways," he said. "Having the data organized made my job...

Some of you may have already seen this posted in Jensen’s blog.  Jensen is the GPM of the Office User Experience team and was the lead for the implementation of the Ribbon in Office 2007.  Last week at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, Jensen presented “The Story of the Ribbon”.  It’s a chance to get a glimpse of how much design iteration was taking place and some of the good and bad ideas that led to what we have today. Links to the talk are posted here in Jensen’s...