Third Of Five - just another voice in the Collective
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