[AccessD] Microsoft Office Support - animated GIFs

[Bill Benson]

Format a union query? Every time I format a query, my carriage returns are
sucked out again by Access next time I view the queries in SQL view, and
everything tuns together again.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> 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-multiple-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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