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  • Access 2010 Custom Themes

    25 Sep 2009
    Today’s guest writer is Steve Greenberg. The recent Access 2010 Theme’s post introduced you to the new Office themes inside Access. Now let’s show you some of the advanced things you can do with themes. The controls we are about to use can all be found to the left of the Design tab...

  • Access 2010 Themes

    23 Sep 2009
    Today’s guest writers are Steve Greenberg and Viki Selca. The PMs that have lead the effort to make it easier to create great looking apps. People say “Don’t judge a book by its cover” but everyone who develops software knows that applications are judged by their look and feel...

  • Color Support in Access 2007

    7 Sep 2007
    This is the next installment in a series of posts about Access 2007 originally made by one of our developers on the Access team on his own blog that I'm moving here for the broader audience to enjoy. "I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right" - Alan Bean Figure 1: Access 2007 Color...

  • Updated AutoFormats and New UI

    19 Jun 2006
    Access 2007 has significantly updated the AutoFormats included in the box, and we'll provide a tool that can help create your own formats or customize the existing ones. This provides a fast way to generate a good (and modern) looking set of formatting across all your applications. Access, along with...

  • Better Looking Forms & Reports, Faster

    25 Apr 2006
    Building modern looking data forms & reports in Access 2003 can be difficult. Doing the heavy lifting is easy - there are great tools for building the data-bound portions of the form - but making the interface look great can be a challenge and can require some creative hacks. UtterAccess even has...

  • WYSIWYG Report Authoring

    5 Apr 2006
    Access 12 has a variety of tools designed to make it both quicker and easier to author applications. The WYSIWYG report authoring view tools fit both bills. We saw a bit of them in the posts on Customizing the Issues Template and Starting from Scratch and can finally dive in deeper into the features...

  • Color Support in Access 12

    28 Mar 2006
    This is a quick post that isn't on the overall list but that is provides some more details about new color tools in Access 12. This was written by Clint Covington on the Access PM team (thanks Clint!). The post on the new forms design tools is still to come. Colors in Access 12 Office 12 introduces a...