Week in Review Week in Review: March 14, 2026 Highlights include news about the Rubberduck VBA project, a video on building custom chatbots with RAG, and a free 5+ hour intro to SQL Server for Access users.
Week in Review Week in Review: March 7, 2026 Highlights include Monaco query editor fixes, group-wise ranking with class modules, message boxes with timeouts, and visual badges over the Access taskbar icon.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 28, 2026 Highlights include mutually exclusive checkboxes across records, API calls for the clipboard and env vars, and personalized Access popup forms.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 21, 2026 Highlights include an advanced data grid for Access, AI-assisted development of a Monaco SQL Editor, and tips for handling the Not In List event.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 14, 2026 Highlights include a tutorial on boosting the performance of tab controls, how to cancel long-running loops with Esc, and tips for creating JSON files from Access.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 7, 2026 Highlights include an update to the VBA-MicrosoftGraph project, a simple way to retrieve command-line output in VBA, and a showcase of advanced Access work.
Week in Review Week in Review: January 31, 2026 Highlights include 6 ways to get the current username, adding a visible countdown timer, free OCR tools for extracting text from images, and creating a custom ribbon.
Week in Review Week in Review: January 24, 2026 Highlights include building smart combo boxes, modern on/off toggle slider controls, and a module for looking up Win API error names from error numbers.
Week in Review Week in Review: January 17, 2026 Highlights include advanced techniques to use ICO/PNG/JPG/BMP files as form icons, how to create theme-aware forms, and a list of upcoming Access conferences in 2026.
Week in Review Week in Review: January 10, 2026 Highlights include a new edition of Karl Donaubauer's Access News webcast, a presentation on a new style MsgBox, and batch processing images with ImageMagick.
Week in Review Week in Review: January 3, 2026 Highlights include replacing soon-to-be-deprecated VBScript with PowerShell, adding Excel-style arrow key nav to continuous forms, and highlighting the current record.
Week in Review Week in Review: December 27, 2025 Highlights include tips for "resetting" Access for the new year (tl;dr: normalize your data!), saving system settings to backend tables, and a poetic plea to the powers that be.
Week in Review Week in Review: December 20, 2025 Highlights include 5 ways to loop through files, 13 XML-handling functions, a deep dive into the Access template file format, and a bug related to recent Office security updates.
Week in Review Week in Review: December 13, 2025 Highlights include using Twilio to text from Access, adding block comment/uncomment buttons to the VBA toolbar, and using internet time services to secure trial periods.
Week in Review Week in Review: December 6, 2025 Highlights include opening your form to the last viewed record, wrapper functions to simplify embedding quotes, and safely loading multiple forms at startup.
Week in Review Week in Review: November 29, 2025 Highlights include Access developer survey results, a library of VBA functions for managing INI files, how to hide or move the Quick Access Toolbar, and how to enable full-screen mode.
Week in Review Week in Review: November 22, 2025 Highlights include a masterclass in Access security, saving and loading "template" records, using Win APIs to show the Font dialog box, and migrating to SQL Server.
Week in Review Week in Review: November 15, 2025 Highlights include early deprecation of the IE browser control, using Power Automate with Office apps, and easy auditing of Access data changes.
Week in Review Week in Review: November 7, 2025 Highlights include creating a progress bar with Windows API calls, how to prevent the safe-mode prompt after an Access crash, and Windows features that slow down Access.
Week in Review Week in Review: November 1, 2025 Highlights include a supercharged MsgBox, the Access team's current dev priorities, and an open-source project to run Windows apps (like Access!) on Linux (and no, it's not Wine).
Week in Review Week in Review: October 25, 2025 Highlights include API calls for a better MsgBox, creating a modern toggle slider, a deep dive into expressions (vs. VBA), and how to list active Windows processes.
Week in Review Week in Review: October 18, 2025 Highlights include a class module for exporting to Excel, entering Excel-style equations in any Access text box, and a function for sorting continuous form columns.
Week in Review Week in Review: October 11, 2025 Highlights include a video on custom dialogs and mini notifications, methods to check internet connectivity, and the PeekMessage/TranslateMessage API calls in action.
Week in Review Week in Review: October 4, 2025 Highlights include how to build an AI chatbot in Access, the proper way to handle file attachments, and a deep dive into issues with Aptos, the default Office font.
Week in Review Week in Review: September 27, 2025 Highlights include an official list of fixes in Access v2507 and v2508, an update on calling Graph API from VBA, and drawing with API functions GetPixel and SetPixel.