A visitor to the site asked about using ALT-TAB to switch between open Access windows. This refers to the “Windows in Taskbar” feature which was available in Access prior to Access 2007. You could set Access to display a button for every open Access window on the Windows Task Bar and use the standard ALT-TAB…
Sorting it all out …
I wrote awhile back about how I used Microsoft Outlook to keep track of things I’m working on and store reminders for project ideas that would be great to work on someday. I’m still getting the hang of it but I’m a little closer. The Outlook calendar is a great tool. I hadn’t used it much…
The Value of Choice
… It seems that more and more people in this society are unwilling to accept this responsibility or understand the concepts of free will and choice … The freedom to make the wrong choices is vital to a person’s actual ability to make the right ones. This is not as heretical as it may sound.
Almost there …
I’m managing to get my fingers to keep working despite the latest cold snaps and have finished the first draft of “Programming Microsoft Access”, the series on Visual Basic for Applications that I’ve been working on for the last couple weeks. Now I’m going through the chapters and revising as needed. It’s amazing what you…
Living in Outlook
In my last post, I included the outline for the series on Access VBA that I’m writing. Of course, an outline is just that – a rough summary of what the finished project should look like. It can’t be carved in stone. So while I’m working on the chapters for decision loops, I realize that I don’t have…
A few thoughts at 3 a.m.
I’m plowing my way through writing the next chapter of the Microsoft Access for Beginners series and have the insomnia to show for it. This chapter, an introduction to Visual Basic for Applications, is one I’ve been wanting to do for awhile and should have done a long time ago but always found a way to…
Just had to step out for awhile …
There was a bit of an oversight while transferring the site to a new hosting service and the blog went away for awhile but it’s back now and hopefully I’ll be able to keep it up a little more than I did before. As I said, Drewslair.com was transferred to a new hosting service during…
Design Abstractions
While new technologies … might make things easier for the average professional, they will never replace a solid understanding of the technologies they are built on top of.