Currently talking about Access 2007 and other random topics...
Access 2007 marketing material is out
Apparently part of the marketing material for Access 2007 is out. IMO, it is a little sparse on...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 04/11/2006
The New Record Navigator
One of things you might notice that we have changed this time around is the Record Navigator. We...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 04/06/2006
Access and Colors: MDBs, ACCDBs and the new Access Theme Colors
On my previous post, I spoke about how the new Access Theme Colors are very cool and all, but...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 04/04/2006
After the work: impressions on Accessibility (in the context of Access 2007)
After I spent the last couple of weeks talking about the specifics of the accessibility work done in...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 03/30/2006
Access 2007 and Colors: some pretty cool stuff
"I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right" - Alan Bean Last week I spoke at...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 03/28/2006
Office 2007: See the new UI in action
A video ("Welcome to the new Microsoft Office Interface") is now available with the new Office...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 03/27/2006
Access and Colors: How Access 2003 works
There is a lot of confusion regarding the Access color properties, such as font color, control...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 03/23/2006
Accessibility in other revamped and new UI in Access 2007
For Access 2007, we are adding a lot of new UI (e.g. a DBC replacement, new wizards), rewriting the...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 03/21/2006
Accessibility and Grids in Access: Tables, Queries, Designers and much more
Perhaps the major Accessibility investment we made in Access 2007 has been implementing a highly...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 03/14/2006
Post-Beta 1 Access 2007 (and Office 2007, of course)
Now that we are way past Beta 1, there has been a lot of improvements in Access 2007. But besides...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 03/09/2006
Accessibility Improvements in Forms
As I mentioned last week, forms in Access 2007 will see some accessibility improvements. At first...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 03/07/2006
Accessibility Improvements in Reports
As Erik hinted, in Access 2007 we will allows a new mode for Reports called "Report Browse". By...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 02/28/2006
Accessibility and Access
Perhaps one of the less sung additions to Access 2007 is the all-around improvement on Accessibility...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 02/21/2006
Split Form: The Object Model
Now that I had a chance to talk a little about Split Forms, I think it's worth doing a quick post...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 02/16/2006
Office 12 named 2007 Microsoft Office System
In celebration, I'll update the category titles. Here's the news: C|Net, Microsoft Watch, PC World,...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 02/16/2006
RSS comments are turned on
They were off by default after we moved servers. Now you can add comments using your RSS reader,...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 02/14/2006
Split Forms: Rich Datasheets
Last week I introduced you to Split Forms, one of the new cool views we have for forms in Access 12....
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 02/14/2006
Andrew Miller's blog seems to be gone...
... so I'm removing the link to it. (Insert "taps" bugle call here).
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 02/13/2006
Performance: who cares? Apparently customers do.
This is sort of old news (Performance Analysis: Office vs. OpenOffice [1] and [2]), but it was...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 02/10/2006
Split Forms: Best of Both Worlds For Editing and Viewing Data
In Access 12 we are introducing a new default view for forms: Split Form. The best way to describe...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 02/09/2006
I'm back at the keyboard from being sort of away
It's been a long time but I'm finally back. Why have I been away? Well, between the holidays,...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 02/08/2006
Office 12 Beta1 is out...
The only thing I can think of about the release of the Beta1 is a famous corollary: "Any given...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 11/17/2005
Erik Rucker's blog
You might want to check out our GPM (Group Program Manager) blog here: https://blogs.msdn.com/access....
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 10/12/2005
Office 2003 SP2 is out
Access users: Make sure you install SP2 (here:...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/28/2005
Office 12 and registering for the Beta
Check out the Office 12 preview site (https://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx) and...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/23/2005
PDC Remarks: Steven Sinofsky on Access 12
From https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ssinofsky/09-14PDC2005.mspx: "(...) I've got one more...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/22/2005
Follow up: PDC presentation is available online
As ThomasT pointed out, the presentation for the Access 12 session at PDC was made available online....
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/19/2005
Access 12 and what you saw at the PDC: where to next?
Are you excited from what you heard and saw at PDC? Most likely you already saw the new Office UI,...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/16/2005
Access 12 session at PDC
In case you are wondering what kind of content there is at the PDC regarding Access 12, this was the...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/14/2005
Microsoft Access 12 at the PDC
Here's the new (still temporary, keep in mind) Microsoft Access 12 UI for those who missed it:...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/13/2005
Office 12 at the PDC
In case you missed it, here are the screenshots of Office 12 and the new UI:...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/13/2005
While I'm still talking about Access samples...
I bumped into this Access sample the other day which is very interesting: an Access to/from...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/07/2005
Northwind
Perhaps one of the first things you play with when you start to learn about Access is the Northwind...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/05/2005
Most Annoying Feature... ever
This is a pet peeve… If you use Access and have multiple windows open, each window shows up as a...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 09/01/2005
What's this about?
Let me be different and start by what I don't plan to do on this blog: Post my resume in C.S. Lewis...
Author: ThirdOfFive Date: 08/30/2005