I must say, I am certainly detecting a change in direction from the Access team. It feels like Access is finally being recognized as being part of the office suite. We might not have many bullet points to show yet,…
Lifesigns detected from the Access product team! Features Added!
If you have been keeping up with the history of Access you know that its been a special kind of ride. Access has some fantastic features, that were present already from the first versions of Access, which have only recently…
Join Access MVP in the webinar on Bug Fighting – April 22 2016 3-4PM PDT (22 GMT)
A great presenter and extremely knowledgeable Access MVP Tom van Stiphout will be hosting a webinar on how to find and trash bugs in your VBA code. Click the image below for more details, and sign up for the…
Access Email with Hyperlink to record
A couple of days ago I posted about ways to get an email hyperlink to activate your access database and navigate to a specific record. It was a bit cumbersome because it had to use both batch files and vbs…
Deep Linking or Hyperlinking in Microsoft Access
Email hyperlink/Deep Link to Access record Literally for ages, I’ve wanted to ability to email a link to users, that would take them to a specific record within my access application. For quite a while I’ve been sending out Monday…
Playing with Report View as a subform
I’ve been playing with adding a report as a subform. As far as I know, that means the report is displayed in report view. That means no format event, and there are several other events that don’t fire either. The…
Office automation: Outlook 2010 randomly renames file attachments
Alternative Title: Guess what I wasted the past 2 days on? We recently got a bug report from one of our contractors. They told us that the attached files they had received via outlook was not named correctly. In fact,…
Whats new in Access 2016
Jeff Conrad from the Access Team recently released this list of new features for Access 2016. Personally I am still on 2010, but it does look like some of the features are features the Access community has been requested for…
Stop or Check multiple instances of Access on startup
Prevent users from opening multiple instances of access Quite often we want to only allow the user to open the frontend file one and ONLY one time. It could be that some functionality simple doesn’t work if the frontend is…
Access Europe August 5th: Automate Client Distribution
Access Europe has a special session lined up for you this time. On August 5th we will demonstrate how to automate pushing updates out to your users. Now if you’r an access developer with multiple users, you are probably aware…
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