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Hello Access and Office Professionals and anyone else who wants to listen

A reader writes in "I sure appreciate your efforts on the new Smart Access Website, how are you putting it together ?" Well its mostly being organized using a program called Help and Manual. Initially I did a lot of the preliminary work by using a large Access database to build the project. Once the structure was in place, I then used Help and Manual to build the HTML website. H&M is very good and at the click of a mouse, uses the same toolset to build PDF and CHM help files as well.

I must thank a lady called Marie Foley who's dedication in entering the Smart Access Topic introductions helped build this great resource and Michel, one of my loyal readers who alerted me to this information.

Here are more links to newly posted articles from the Smart Access collection.

Enjoy the newsletter

Garry Robinson
Microsoft Access MVP

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	--- 2/09/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Build Word 2003 Docs with XML
	In the good old days, creating Word documents from Access required extensive knowledge of the Word object model plus some significant programming knowledge. With Word 2003, that's all changed. Peter Vogel illustrates how you don't even need Access 2003 to take advantage of Word's XML functionality.
	--- 8/09/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Use Classes to Enhance List and Combo Boxes
	Access 97, 2003 and 2007 has support for standard class modules lets you greatly extend the functionality of standard controls. In this article, Jim Ferguson shows you how to make Access unbound list and combo boxes behave more like those in Visual Basic by adding a few new methods and properties via a standard class module.
	--- 5/09/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Access Interfaces: Building Explorer-style Forms
	Rebecca Riordan looks at the surprisingly simple process of implementing an Explorer-style form architecture using the TreeView component that's part of the Windows XP Common Control Library.
	--- 18/08/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Convert Access to SQL Server and then to .Net #
	Upsize to SQL Server 2005 or 2008, easily repeated conversions, highly accurate SQL query translation, Then convert to .Net forms and reports in Reporting Services
	--- 7/09/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Peter Vogel discusses Null Fields
	Bob Heifer is looking into the Smart Access collection for me with an aim to highlighting stories that suit his large beginner programming audience. This week he has picked out the Null Fields editorial by Peter Vogel. Sign up for his newsletter or add his Blogs RSS to your feeds.
	--- 10/09/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Read the Manual - Please
	Peter Vogel the 10 year editor of Smart Access has a blog on effective user manuals.
	--- 19/05/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# The Access Workbench #
	Find out who has your database open, start the correct version of Access, easy compacting and backups, change startup options, create version zip files, shutdown database all in a simple interface. We have sold 100s of licences.
	--- 1/09/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Microsoft Access Passwords, Workgroups and ADO
	This article shows you how to make an ADO connection to a database that is secured by either a database password or by a workgroup file.
	--- 31/08/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Access Answers: MP3 Tricks
	In this article, Doug Steele talks about how to play MP3 files from your Access application.
	--- 31/08/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Access Answers: Date Tricks
	In this article, Doug Steele demonstrates a useful formula to use with date calculations.
	--- 18/08/2009  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# The Aussie DevCon Conference Is Back #
	The year the Office DevCon Conference is going to be held in Brisbane at the end of October. Here is what it is all about. Office DevCon is the largest and most popular annual community-driven conference that allows Microsoft Office developers and power users to come together in one location to hear expert speakers present on a wide range of Microsoft Office-related topics.

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