[AccessD] Access 2010 Nav Window Question.

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haha, yeah, it seems like it.   "form over function" for sure.  I used to be able to sort by mod date with a single click.  Now it is a lot of stuffing around with the mouse and scrolling thru pages of db objects because you can only view a handful at a time.  What a right PITA.  Productivity just went 'plurk!'




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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan [stuart at lexacorp.com.pg]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 May 2011 3:14 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2010 Nav Window Question.

The triumph of form over function yet again.  MS would much rather have it "look pretty" than
"be practical".   As far as I know, you're stuck with it.

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Stuart

On 18 May 2011 at 14:48, Darryl Collins wrote:

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> If anyone has A2010 and can help it would be apprecaited.  In ye olde
> world of A2003 I would always use the 'detailed' view in the Nav pane
> and this was fine.  The DB object icons were small and the details
> were displayed on a single line per object.  Nice and tight and
> useful, but in A2010 using the detailed view makes each entry several
> lines long and takes up too much darn space - even on a decent monitor
> I can only see a few of the hundreds of objects and you cannot make
> the pane bigger or smaller to suit..  I figure that streeeeeeching the
> nav pane to the right would fix that and give Access the space to make
> a single line of data, but no, All the meta details still stay bunched
> up on the LHS of the pane and the RHS is just a huge blank space -
> STUPID!  I hate that fixed nav pane in A2010.
>
> I can swith to list view, which makes the size usable for all the DB
> objects, but then you lose all visibility on the important stuff.
> Sheesh.  Who designed this nonsense and who UAT'd it??  I find it such
> a backward step in productivity.  Sure let folks dock the pane if they
> want, but letting it float was always a good idea IMHO.
>
> Anyway, I am hoping I am just a big whinger who didn't read the
> instructions and I can mod the Nav pane to get the view required, but
> I am not that hopeful :-/
>
> If anyone can point me to the right hidden options (probably buried 8
> levels down on the 'backstage' if it exists at all.....)  urrrrgh.
>
> cheers
> Darryl.
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