How to print reports from a printer that’s not the default. Q:Bronwyn Pugh wrote to ask how to print certain reports to a color laser printer, when the default printer is (and should be) another printer. A: I have two laser printers (color and b&w), so I have the same
A new ebook on using Microsoft Access to make great Word documents. Office Watch and Helen Feddema are delighted to announce the publication of a new Office Watch ebook especially for Microsoft Access users. Access Archon – Working with Word by Helen Feddema, editor of Access Watch. Like
More solutions to Access AutoNumber problems. I have received several more solutions to the AutoNumber problem discussed previously with the Access Archon article “Recovering from an AutoNumber Disaster.” With these solutions, and the ones in the last AW, you should be able to find some solution that works for you,
How to use the Outlook View Control on an Access form When Office 2000 was introduced, and the Outlook View Control first became available, I tried it out, but found it so buggy and difficult to work with that I set it aside as unusable. Recently, I decided to try
A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of Access A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of PPT. We’ve already looked at Word 2010, Excel 2010, OneNote 2010 and Outlook 2010 plus the new look Office button menu. These sneak peeks into the Office
Q: Dawn Crosier writes: I read through your “Access 2007 VBA For Data-Centric Microsoft Office Applications” and have questions about how to get formatted text out of the Access database into a Word Bookmark without bringing all the HTML code. A: I did some experimentation, using my Rich Text Demo
Several readers responded with more information on what causes this problem, and how to recover from it In response to AW 9.16, with the Access Archon article “Recovering from an AutoNumber Disaster,” several readers responded with more information on what causes this problem, and how to recover from it. Access
How to put an UpDown control on an Access form, and use it to change the value of a number or date. Access Archon #175 Introduction The UpDown control (formerly called the SpinButton control) has been available since Access 97, at least if you bought the Developer Edition of Office.
Helen Feddema of Access Watch fame has released a new version of her famous Time & Expense Billing Application for Office. The Time & Expense Billing application consists of an Outlook custom Journal form and five sets of Office version-specific documents; each set includes a Word setup document, two Word
From: Microsoft Microsoft Office Visio 2007, Every Picture Tells a Richer Story- a Microsoft Q & A Richard Wolf, general manager of the Microsoft Office Graphics Division, highlights new data visualization capabilities in the upcoming release of Microsoft Office Visio that will enable business and IT professionals to more easily
How to programmatically change custom document properties in Word – and and example of why you should not trust Microsoft help files! I have received a number of messages from readers (Word guru George Mair was the first) informing me that I was mistaken in saying the Word custom document properties collection
