[AccessD] Microsoft Office Support - animated GIFs

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Bill

It's not that bad with union queries as you have no GUI designer to switch to.

The formatting in the video and the GIF is to make the parts stand out more clearly.

/gustav

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Fra: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Bill Benson
Sendt: 12. april 2018 15:27
Til: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Emne: Re: [AccessD] Microsoft Office Support - animated GIFs

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