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| Produced by Garry Robinson from Sydney, Australia. |
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| Internet Explorer 7 RSS
Feeds |
| By the time many of the readers open
this newsletter, you will have upgraded to Internet Explorer 7. If you
have, you will probably have come to the conclusion that the new semi
transparent look is nice and multi-tabs are an interesting new feature.
For me the improvements are not life changing and somethings like
closing individual tabs and menu locations are confusing. But there is
one really good thing, RSS feeds like the one used by this magazine are
easy to read, easy and anonymous to sign up for and easy to find again
in the IE7 interface. To see the RSS feed that this newsletter is based on, copy the following line into the address bar of IE7. http://www.vb123.com/news/rss1.xml We are adding new items to the RSS feed every day so rather than waiting for the newsletter every month or so, get into our RSS feed. |
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Changing Form and Table properties on mass |
| The code for today's article will show
you how to access and modify the properties of various Microsoft Access
objects through VBA code. By Danny Lesandrini |
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Optimise Your
Visual Basic Loops |
| The following page is about visual
basic but if you have a loop that takes a long time you may find some
useful tips. |
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User
Interface Customization (Ribbons) in 2007 |
| Learn how to customize the Ribbon user
interface (UI) in the 2007 Microsoft Office release. Frank Rice and Ken
Getz. |
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To Vista or not to Vista? |
| One journalist's view on the hazards
of taking on Windows Vista. |
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| AUSSIE
CONTRACT WORK |
| I am looking to talk to very competent
Access developers (2 years+ experience) to help us with our projects in
Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne. If you have your own company, even
better. I am interested in people who can walk into a client's office,
talk specifications, build good data models, sort out messy Access
applications and keep the users happy. This is not full time work and
may only amount to a single project or two a year. If this is you,
contact me by email using the address at the top of this page
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Good things for
programmers to know about Windows Vista |
| Read why Windows Vista is about to
change the computing landscape for enterprises and individual users.
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Advisor for
Microsoft Access (Open Article) |
| Find 10 good reasons to use Microsoft
Access 2007 |
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Office
2007 Requirements |
| A good description on the computer
requirements for the latest version of Microsoft Office |
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MS's Access 2007 Blog - Read a bit about Sharepoint and Access 2007.
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| All the latest discussions of what you
will find in Access 2007. This post refers to SharePoint designer in
Access 2007. Of particular interest is all the comments.. Editorial comment by Garry "Please note that by design, Access 2007 is aimed at a lower end audience. As a consequence, power programmers are not going to be happy with progress in 2007 as very little was aimed at that end of the market. Anyway it matters little to me because Access will still be a good tool for solving business problems for small to medium teams of users." |
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Automatically Stopping and Starting SQL Server |
| Occasionally you can run into problems
that do require you to stop and restart SQL Server. Read how to do it
automatically.. |
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What's happening
with Frontpage 2003 in Office 2007? |
| FrontPage, Microsoft’s web page
editor, has been dropped from the Office 2007 lineup. It’s been replaced with two products, one part of Office 2007 and the other still in development. |
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Repair Damaged Access Databases |
| vb123.com now offers an online repair
system for Access databases. Included in the latest version is the
option to only repair tables rather than fix the whole database. This
reduces the cost of exercise. The system is setup so that your data is
encrypted and in most cases, you should be able to recover a corrupt
database in less than 30 minutes elapsed time. |
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Simplify String Concatenations with Nulls and Zero Length Strings by
Luke Chung |
| The concatenation of string values can
be a nuisance when referencing fields with Null values, because you want
to avoid having extra spaces where the missing string value should have
appeared. Read on |
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Access filtering as you type |
| Software selection of combo boxes then
filtering as you go. By Allen Browne |
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Office 2007
Compatibility Packs (for Word) |
| Microsoft promised to provide a free
tool to permit earlier versions of Office to read and save the new
formats. Now the compatibility pack is available, Office Watch finds
that only the Word 2007 format is fully supported with Excel and
Powerpoint left wanting. |
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New Version of
the Workbench For Microsoft Access Released |
| A simple interface to make sure your
screen sizes and form sizes are talking turkey and the new folder Tab to
more easily identify databases. Find out all the improvements to our popular Access management and development tool on this page. |
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Garry's Access Security Book |
| My book on protecting and securing
Access databases received its 12th 5 star review at Amazon USA making it
one of the highest rated Access books at Amazon. It looks like it's
getting harder and harder to purchase the book so don't delay any more..
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Creating Managed Add-ins for Access 2007 |
| Microsoft Office Access 2007 adds a
new capability, making managed add-ins (that is, add-ins that run code
created by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, written in either
Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Visual C#) both possible and
relatively easy to create. Now you can use professional tools for
creating managed applications, and incorporate the rich and powerful
functionality of the Microsoft .NET Framework. |
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Unlimited Newsletter 71 |
| Read the last newsletter online. |
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Microsoft Office Access MVP
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