[AccessD] Microsoft Office Support - animated GIFs

[Jim Dettman]

Gustav,

  Video is far better.

  As you said, the animated GIFs are hard to work with in a learning
situation, mainly in that you cannot pause them.

  The GIF in the article you pointed to was too fast for me to follow.

Jim.

-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Gustav Brock
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2018 5:12 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Microsoft Office Support - animated GIFs

Hi all

Microsoft is currently busy with improving the support and help pages,
focusing on those with a poor feedback.
Recently, I worked with Jeff Conrad to improve a topic I recall - in my
early Access days -  to be difficult to get hold on, due to the total lack
of visual help: Union queries.

The old article was lengthy and with much text, and for many - from the
feedback to read - simply uncomprehensive.
So, I brought in the collapsible view used widely by Microsoft and some
animated GIFs to make it more appealing.

While animated GIFs is a quick method to visualise things, they aren't easy
to edit, and they are not that user friendly - you cannot stop the
animation, and it isn't easy to start over, and - in general - users are
more familiar with videos.
Thus, Jeff decided to remake them as videos. Only the first has been
replaced, so the second GIF is still on-line:

    Use a union query to combine multiple queries into a single result
 
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-a-union-query-to-combine-multip
le-queries-into-a-single-result-1F772EC0-CC73-474D-AB10-AD0A75541C6E

What do you think of this format?

I'm not asking for "likes" (= This page was helpful). Rather, you should
not, as you are not in the target group.

/gustav
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