Doug Steele
dbdoug at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 19:08:20 CDT 2008
Hi Arthur: Thanks for the comment, and I'm not insulted. I'd be the first person to admit that I've spent very little time exploring the new features of the Nav Pane, and I expect that, as time passes, I'll get more comfortable with it as a tool. It's going to be a while, though. Even if the Nav Pane can provide a generally improved navigation experience, getting my clients to pay me for changing the look and feel of their existing, perfectly functional, databases will be an arduous process. Thanks, Doug Steele On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote: > I don't want to get bitchy just before Good Friday, but IMO you're taking > the lazy way out, and also failing to exploit some of the significant > advantages of this new feature. You can customize it to hide everything > you > wish, and also to display the new items you have created expressly for > that > purpose. The tremendous advantage of such an approach is that you can open > several items in sequence and they are all open in tabs and you can switch > from one to another with a click. In addition, this UI far surpasses the > old > Switchboard technology, not least because it's always visible and > available. > > Invest a little time in learning to customize this thing and I am > confident > that you will change your mind and realize how cool it is. > > Arthur > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Doug Steele <dbdoug at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I hide it. Two reasons: > > > > 1. Most of my screens are full already. > > 2. The last thing I want is my 'experimental' users discovering they can > > activate a form or query from the main menu. I generally find that > users > > find the database window in earlier versions of Access too intimidating > to > > play with, but the Nav Pane is just sitting there waiting to be clicked > > on... > > > > Doug Steele > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >