Mike Alexander, Excel MVP recently sent us a pointer to a blog post with some cool ideas to spice up your application with data visualizations . Here is a quick sample: Mike didn’t mention attachments in his post but the attachment control works really well for storing images
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Dashboard graphics in forms and reports
Today’s guest blogger is Access MVP Garry Robinson, who offers the Smart Access collection of articles at http://www.vb123.com/kb . In Smart Access Answers , Doug Steele was asked “What if I have a number of different controls–say, text boxes, labels, and check boxes and I want to make them invisible or visible when a form is being used?
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Manage large groups of controls by using the Tag property
So you want to open a task pane by using a button on the Ribbon. You also want a form region that appears in an e-mail item to detect the state of a control on a custom task pane so that you can add or remove an option that appears in a Ribbon menu right? Ok, I completely made this scenario up
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Do Your Outlook UI Elements Need Counseling? – Get your Form Regions, Ribbons, and Task Panes Talking to Each Other Again (Norm Estabrook)
Posted by Chris Downs, writer, Access IW Content Team Here’s a great tip suggested by Clint Covington.
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Roll-your-own “traffic light” icon set
This video explains how to deploy a custom form region to a user’s system. This demo shows how to publish the form region addin for deployment and install the addin to the user’s system.
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How Do I: Deploy a Custom Outlook Form Region?