By Helen Feddema Access versions: 2007-2013 Level: Intermediate Introduction Word has a sophisticated Table of Contents feature that automatically creates a table of contents from designated headings in a document. Access reports don’t have such a feature, but I managed to create one using VBA code, custom database properties and some Word features. The Orders […]
On the TV show ‘The West Wing’ news stories the administration wanted the public to overlook were released on ‘Friday Trash Day‘. In the real world, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has another term for the same practice. The NSA calls it ‘Christmas Eve’. It was on the afternoon of 24 December the NSA chose […]
The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting has released the emails of Governor Jeb Bush during his tenure as Florida’s governor. That’s of interest to us since the information is available in its original Outlook data file form. Before anyone gets angry with us … we are not making any political comment here nor any statement […]
One of the automatically installed patches for Office causes a new bug! Ouch. The new bugs aren’t common but even so, they are embarrassing. You can find the details under the Knowledge Base article headed ““Cannot insert object” error in an ActiveX custom Office solution after you install the MS14-082 security update”. Most people won’t […]
Slow, but surely, the online version of Microsoft Office gets better. Word online will never have everything that Word for Windows or Mac does, but it’s becoming more viable for occasional users and as a backup in case your usual software fails. It also adds some interesting features that’s aren’t available in the traditional software. […]
