Access (Desktop Application)
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BUG - Unreliable ControlTip Text
Sometimes, when hovering the mouse over form controls, the ControlTip Text for the controls does not appear.
Had this problem for months. It occurs on some PCs but not others, which have had identical Windows / Office builds.
Have not been able to figure out why it occurs in some environments, but not others.
I've been able to recreate the issue reliably for days on end, then suddenly it starts working again...for a while.A PC which has shown the issue:
OS Build Windows 10 Pro
Version 1809
OS Build 17763.1098
Access 2016 (16.0.4924.1000) MSO (16.0.4939.1000) 32-bitTo recreate:
-…8 votesNo Current Plan ·AdminMicrosoft Access Product Team (Microsoft Access Product Team, Microsoft) responded
Thank you for your feedback. Unfortunately after following your steps, the Microsoft team was not able to reproduce this scenario. This has also been a long-standing scenario that our users have been able to work around for a while without problems. Unless there is more information you’d like to provide, there is no current plan to address this at this time. That said, we will keep this item open, and will continue tracking for more feedback.
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Add UWP/Fluent Controls
The currently available controls look ancient (Think Windows 3.1). Why not add new controls that allow developers to match the look and feel of Windows 10?
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Add Property Sheet contextual help
For new users, the Property Sheet for most objects is loaded with options, most of which are optional. However, some are not optional depending on the user's intent...mostly to do with binding objects to other tables, etc. If Access were a bit "smarter" it may be able to determine what a user is trying to do and highlight the appropriate Properties required to be modified along with a brief explanation, or a link to RELEVANT help.
3 votesGood suggestion and thank you for posting.
No current plan to add this at this point.Access Engineering
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Bring Access to the year 2017
OK, enough of COM controls and VBA programming. The controls need a complete overhaul that look like and act like year 2017 controls not 1981 controls. We need more controls that you would find in .net interface. The chart control, datashets and almost all other controls need to be moved out of the COM world. Creating a dashboard in near impossible with the current controls and layout handling.
Also VBA is ok but very limited compared to .net. Both are your products why not integrate them.
We need a true grid control, better comboboxs, true PDF support, better and attractive…
26 votesThanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas with us.
However as written, we feel that this suggestion is not actionable. Please feel free to create new itemized suggestions that are more actionable.
Thanks,
Michal [MSFT] -
3 votes
Thanks for posting the suggestion – it does seem like a great idea but at this point there is no plan of adding it.
Thanks,
Michal [MSFT] -
Ctrl+A in a textbox should select all text instead of all records
Currently, when I'm in a form's textbox and I instinctively hit Ctrl+A to select all text (just like any other Windows application), nothing happens. Or so you may think, in fact everything happens! All records get selected, and if you dare hit the wrong button while you think you have selected all text of the textbox, woe is unto you.
Should Access really be different from all other programs out there? Why should a user think that when in a textbox and hitting ctrl+A it won't select the text?
Of course, there are workarounds (like a VBA function that hijacks…
4 votesThanks for suggesting and supporting.
We agree that this behavior is somewhat misleading, but believe that fixing it may cause existing apps and solutions that depend on this behavior unexpected issues.
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