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• Turn your quotes into paid invoices with the Services template (video)

  18 Mar 2011

  The recent re-launch of the Access product page on Office.com includes templates to help you run your small business - and articles with videos to help get you started. In earlier posts we've highlighted the Goods template and the previously-released Contacts template . This post showcases the Services...
• Manage business contacts and target marketing with Contacts web database template (video)

  15 Mar 2011

  On our relaunched Access product page on Office.com , we focus on how Access can help you run your small business . To address an important business need, we've added articles and videos to help you get started using the Contacts web database template to organize and manage your business contacts. In...
• New Access templates for your business (video)

  8 Mar 2011

  As part of the recent re-launch of the Access product page on Office.com , we've been showing off how Access can help you run your small business . We've published some new free database templates that you can use to organize your business, and we've also provided articles and videos to help you get...
• The Access product site got a makeover!

  24 Feb 2011

  This post was contributed by Access Product Manager Erika Palmer. The Access product site got a makeover! We’ve simplified the site and added some new areas. There is now... More introductory content for new users, including simple introductions to the different parts of Access. Content and templates...
• Submit an Access template to Office.com

  5 Jan 2011

  Today we would like to talk about Access community templates. You probably have noticed them when you create a new database using "File...New" in Access 2010. Templates are a great way for users to get started more quickly and get to the solution they need a lot faster, and they are a terrific vehicle...
• FIFA Tournament Brackets Template

  11 Jun 2010

  Today’s guest writer is Barath Balasubramanian — a Design Engineer in the Access test team. As the excitement about the 2010 world cup in South Africa intensified, I set out to build an application to gather predictions on the results of the tournament from my team mates. Since all of my...
• Jump start new Access databases with a custom blank database template

  4 Sep 2009

  Today's guest blogger is Access MVP Glenn Lloyd of Argee Services. Check out his Office help blog and Access Help and Tutorial Blog . There are certain features that virtually every Access database application includes. Certain tables like people’s names and addresses, certain forms for managing lookup...
• How do you track customer relationships?

  7 Jul 2009

  This is guest post from Allie Rutherford a summer college intern on the Access team. Do you own your own business or are you in a position where you have to keep track of your customer relationships and sales leads? Have you ever wished your CRM or sales software was a little bit different or easier...
• Write your own Help

  23 Apr 2009

  Sure, that sounds like the frustrated outburst of an overworked technical writer, but when you build Access applications for others to use, you're pretty much on the hook to write the Help for them. Last month, we featured the “ How to synchronize combo boxes " template, and commenter Shairal was...
• Template demonstrates how to synchronize combo boxes

  2 Apr 2009

  You can download a template for Access 2007 that demonstrates how to synchronize two combo boxes. For example, say you choose a category from one combo box, and you want a second combo box to only display products within that category. The template shows you how to make it happen. On the Getting Started...
• Assets, Students, Tasks templates now have videos

  29 Jan 2009

  Today’s guest writer is Wouter Steenbergen, one of the newest members of the Access Program Management team. Several months ago we updated the contacts template . Because of the overwhelming positive feedback it generated we updated the Assets , Student and Task management Access templates. Some of the...
• Free Bugs application available for download

  15 Jan 2009

  A few months ago we solicited feedback about a new bug tracking template that was in development. We got lots of great feedback and I’m happy to announce the template is available in the Access Getting Started screen in the business category and on Office Online . There are several videos available that...
• Bug database template beta available for free download

  25 Sep 2008

  Around two months ago clintc made a post asking if anyone would be interested in a light-weight bug tracking template, and the response was overwhelming. Well, I am happy to announce that we have taken the time to put together just such a template, and better still, that we’re releasing a beta version...
• The Contacts Template Redesign: Listen, Iterate, and Educate

  15 Aug 2008

  Today’s guest writer is Josh Meisels, our intern this summer. He is heading back to school next week but wanted to share information about one of his summer projects. Access 2007 made a huge push to create useful, ready-to-use database templates that users could download from Office Online and get started...
• Customer feedback to improve product design

  15 Aug 2008

  Access 2007 in many ways is a different product for end users. In previous releases it was very difficult to be successful creating a new application without using help, taking a class, reading a book, or asking the community—information workers that wanted to use the product had to really dive into...
• 2007 templates have been updated

  31 Mar 2008

  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...
• New Vehicle Maintenance and Expense Reports database available

  10 Jan 2008

  We just published two new Access 2007 templates that are now available on Office Online. Expense Reports Create an expense reporting database for your business to track and approve expenses in addition to printing reports. Vehicle Maintenance Create a vehicle maintenance database to track multiple vehicles...
• Charitable Contributions Templated

  8 Jan 2008

  For three months this fall we were fortunate to have Anshul Tandon working on our PM team as an intern.  Anshul has now gone back to Louisiana State University where he's a member of the senior class. During his time with us one of his tasks was to create the new Charitable Contributions Template...
• Office Online Community Submitted Database Templates

  7 Jan 2008

  Community submitted templates are now live on Office Online!!  "Er?"  You say, "what has this to do with me?"  I'm so glad you asked!! For the first time ever, there is now a Microsoft hosted service through which you can publish and share database applications with...
• Millions of blog hits and template downloads

  16 Oct 2007

  The last couple days I have stumbled across some numbers that give you an idea about the popularity of our favorite desktop engine. 3 million hits on this blog last month 2.8 million 2007 template downloads world wide since launch Pretty cool!