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• Access 2010 hands-on-lab is available on Channel 9

  8 Feb 2010

  For all those that want to experience development with Access 2010, a new Access 2010 unit has been added to the Channel 9 Learning Center for Office 2010 . The new Building Solutions with Access 2010 Lab consists of 5 exercises highlighting the new web database feature and touches on the new Macro Designer...
• Cool Tool Tips: A Better Control Tip

  24 Aug 2009

  Tony D'Ambra of aadconsulting.com , maker of Access add-ins and switchboards, wanted to share his method for providing help to users when and where they need it. In Access, the functionality of tool tips has not changed since they were introduced in Access 95 ten years ago. In a free sample Access 2000...
• Smart Access has a new home

  22 Jun 2009

  Today’s guest writer is Garry Robinson, Access MVP and proud new owner of past Smart Access journals. I asked him to tell the community about the new home for Smart Access. Hello Clint and Microsoft Access lovers, I am happy to announce that my company has purchased the exclusive rights to Smart Access...
• New Access training courses on Office Online

  3 Jun 2009

  Access Training writer Colin Wilcox has just finished up a series of query courses, available for free on the Access 2007 training courses page on Office Online. Here’s the whole set: Find answers with queries Course What you'll learn Queries I: Get started with queries An overview of what queries are...
• 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...
• Video demo: Mail and email merge with Word

  5 Nov 2008

  Demo: Merge Access data with Word is now live on Office Online. I think this is a great short overview of a some what complicated process. Enjoy!
• Video demo of conditional formatting in reports

  30 Oct 2008

  The video Watch this: Highlight values on a report by using conditional formatting is now live on Office Online. Enjoy! Edited: October 31, 2008--updated link with correct URL.
• 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...
• Article: Create a tab form with video demo

  15 Aug 2008

  The article Create a tabbed form , and the companion sudden demo Watch this: Create a tabbed form ,  are now live on Office Online.
• Two new Allen Browne (MVP) articles

  11 Aug 2008

  The famous Allen Browne has published two new articles on Office Online. Validation rules Want to ensure that users enter valid data? Validation rules might be the answer. This article describes when validation rules are appropriate, and provides examples of commonly-used validation rules. Relationships...
• Access Power User Workshop (Dallas, TX)

  8 Aug 2008

  Mike Alexander an Microsoft MVP in Dallas is putting on an Access Power User Workshop October 20-21, 2008. The cost is $600 but Mike will offer a 30% discount for anyone that mentions they found it through the Access blog. Some of the topics that will be covered during the two-day workshop: Advanced...
• New Articles: AddMenu action, custom menus, shortcut menus, calculated fields

  15 Jul 2008

  The revised topic AddMenu Macro Action and the new topic Create custom menus and shortcut menus by using macros are now live on Office Online. Also, MVP Allen Browne is joining in the publishing fun with Calculated Fields . This is the first of four Allen Browne articles that we will be publishing over...
• Article update: IIF Function

  10 Jul 2008

  Chris Downs has revised topic IIf Function . The changes were in response to customer comments—the topic has been expanded to include more examples as well as information about using the function in queries.
• Article: Top 10 reasons to use Access with Excel

  8 Jul 2008

  Mark Gillis, who has written extensively for Access and Excel, recently published, Top 10 reasons to use Access with Excel . In this article, there are also five “sudden demos” that work together to build a Customer database solution based originally on an Excel workbook. Here’s the table of contents...
• Community Clips about Access from Office Labs

  26 Jun 2008

  This is your chance to become famous! The Office Labs folks have released a cool site for help video. They have a free video recorder that makes the process really simple. There are already 15 Access videos available. Go make a quick demo and share it with the community!
• Article update: Create a form that contains a subform

  26 Jun 2008

  The revised topic Create a form that contains a subform (a one to many form) is now live on Office Online. The topic has been revised to include suggestions from the community, new graphics, rewritten procedures, and two new video demos.
• Free training courses for Access 2007 and Access 2003

  3 Jun 2008

  Today’s guest writer is Colin Wilcox from the Access content team. Hi, all: I’m Colin, and I write online training courses for Access. These are self-paced courses that you take in your browser. You can start or stop them at any time, and most courses have hands-on practice sessions. Even better, they...
• Three new video demos on Office Online

  29 May 2008

  People seem to really like the Access 2007 demos we have been doing. The team has recently published three more on Office Online: Watch this: Add or remove controls from a layout Watch this: Create a form that contains a subdatasheet Watch this: Create a subform by dragging one form onto another form...
• Video demo of how to include the XPS/PDF functionality in your runtime application

  1 Apr 2008

  Mike Stowe has a great article and video demo of how to an add-in to a Access 2007 deployment package created from the Package Solution Wizard. He chains the XPS/PDF addin as the example but you can use the technique to install any addin package with your runtime application. On a side note--what do...
• Video demo: use the expression builder

  5 Mar 2008

  There is a new video demo introducing the expression builder to new users. Here is the topic description: "You can use expressions throughout Access—for example, to calculate values, act as query criteria, or validate data. The Expression Builder helps you create expressions by providing easy access...