Data entry made easy

re: Data Entry Made Easy

Erik Kennedy — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:15:59 GMT

You can write an expression for a field called like "[DueDate]+3" and that will give you the day you're looking for.

re: Data Entry Made Easy

Andrew Stegmaier — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:31:19 GMT

Dick - Access has been a part of a larger value proposition (office) for a long time. Now that the world is shifting to the cloud, this hasn't changed--but our partnership has expanded to SharePoint and Office365 as well.

There has been a massive investment in Access this release, and we've made huge strides to advance our web-based platform. By aligning our apps with SharePoint apps, we're exposing Access to a whole new audience that wouldn't be able to discover it otherwise. The new web apps work great together with the already mature desktop platform (which we continue to support). Far from heralding the death of Access, these changes are preparing the platform for a web- and mobile-enabled future.

re: Data Entry Made Easy

Dick Watson — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:35:52 GMT

(My fear is that Microsoft has decided they are no longer really intersted in developing/selling Access as an end in and of itself and has decided the only reason to sell Access is to promote and enable sales of the more profitable back-end products like SQL Server and SharePoint. As a longtime MS Money user, I've seen this movie before: the minute Microsoft decides that the whole reason one product exists is to sell another one, it's the beginning of the end.)

re: Data Entry Made Easy

Dick Watson — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:30:07 GMT

So, bottom line time: is there <b>any</b> reason an Acc2010 desktop database user would want to upgrade to Acc2013? Was any development invested in making the product better or more usable (not just the new UI) for that user?

re: Data Entry Made Easy

Andrew Stegmaier — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:48:22 GMT

@Dick - That's correct. The new user interface is for 2013 web databases. Desktop databases will continue to be supported as before, though.

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Dick W — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:20:44 GMT

Perhaps I'm missing something again. None of this has anything to do with Access as desktop database, correct?

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kelvin kariithi — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:21:09 GMT

How does one calculate no. of days after a given duration. eg to calculate overdue days after 3 days between a date of issue and a bate of return,,,,,,,