[AccessD] Poll on Access 2007

Too late...too late..I suggested that 72 hours ago....

Max



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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: 29 June 2009 19:06
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Poll on Access 2007

Roll back to 2003?

Charlotte 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 6:25 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Poll on Access 2007

Does anyone find that A2007 runs much slower that 2003?  I and the ONE
client who uses 2007 both find it noticeably and significantly slower.
Is there some fix for that?  

Rocky


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl
Collins
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:44 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Poll on Access 2007

Hi Steve,

It is good to read that some folks like Access 2007.  I cannot say I am
one of them though.  The whole app seems to be not quite finished.  It
is clunky and inelegant compared to Access 2003.  Existing forms no
longer fit smoothly on the screen and my personal bugbear in both Access
and Excel is how MS have completely fouled up existing custom toolbars
and menus that have functioned flawlessly for years and over multiple
app versions.

ok, you can recode them as custom tabs in XML, but then they are no
longer backwardly compatible with older versions.  You also cannot
position them where they are most useful and the user still has to
select the tab to get all the tools for the form.  Rubbish.  Besides,
Often I would put a custom nav and close toolbar at the bottom of the
screen with process toolbar at the top.  Elegant, logic and functional -
but no.  Can't do that anymore, can't do much really.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in Oz, Office 2007 is
no where near critical mass.  Most of the people who are using it are
small businesses and 'mum and dads' who have purchased a new PC and
accepted whatever it came with.  Indeed, if anything folks who use
Office 2007 are generally annoyed as hell to find out that .doc/.xls
email attachment they sent everyone is hard to open and bits are missing
for the bulk of the recipients.  Yeah, I know you can run stuff in
compat mode, but then why bother upgrading at all?

One day time and technology will ensure that everyone creeps fwd to the
newer apps, but I can honestly say the ribbon has done nothing to
improve my productivity and I have been using it now for months- and in
with the case of stuffing all the custom tools bars into the addin tab,
this has actually made thing much worse for me and my clients.

So Access 2007 a step forward?  It is largely puffery and pretty
colours.



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