Week in Review: October 18, 2025

Mike Wolfe -

Just Published

This section includes videos, articles, and (occasionally) open-source project updates from the past 7 days.

Articles

*Article descriptions generated by Claude-Sonnet-4.

Videos‌

  • Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

    • Quick Queries #62 (33:52): Important Missing Index That Could Be Killing Your Microsoft Access Performance
    • Microsoft Access Fitness Database:
      • Fitness Part #49 (17:12): How to Enter Excel-Style Equations in Any Text Box in Microsoft Access
      • Fitness Part #50 (12:36): How to Calculate Totals for Checked Items Automatically in Microsoft Access
      • Fitness Part #51 (17:48): Implement Click & Shift-Click to Select Contiguous Records in Microsoft Access

  • David Britz [David's Database and Coding Channel] (YouTube channel)

New to Me

This section includes content I discovered this week that has been around for a while.

  • Nothing new this week.

Upcoming Access User Group Events

NOTE: Only English-language user group meetings with scheduled guest speakers or topics are listed. For a complete list of upcoming events, visit the Access User Group event calendar. Not all links below include the start time and time zone. For that information, check out this handy reference guide from Access MVP Maria Barnes over at AccessForever.org: Access User Groups 2025.

  • [October 28, 2025] Colin Riddington: A Masterclass in Access Security
  • [November 5, 2025] Ynte Jan Kundersma: Using Power Automate with Office Apps
  • [November 06, 2025] George Hepworth: Create Auditing in an Access Database with 3 Mouse Clicks
  • [December 03, 2025] Adolph Dupré: Using Twilio for Texting from Access
  • [February 04, 2026] Aleksander Wojtasz: Creating an Advanced Data Grid Integrated with Access
  • [March 04, 2026] Chris Arnold: Using Disconnected (In-Memory) ADO Recordsets in Access

*NOTE: Access User Group event calendar was not displaying any events at publication time; events listed above are carried forward from last week's article.

Access Roadmap

The following changes were made to the roadmap between the Week in Review last week (2025-10-11) and this week (2025-10-18).

  • Modernize Access Forms and Reports to work well on Large Format Monitors: Rollout Start Date delayed from SEP 2025 to DEC 2025

The roadmap was last updated October 15, 2025.

Listed below is a snapshot of the official Access Roadmap.

"In Development", "Rolling Out", and "Launched" are Microsoft terms that I pulled straight from the public roadmap. Dates listed are "rollout start" dates.

In Development

  • OCT 2025: Add zoom slider magnification to Microsoft Access: Access will add magnification slider (10% to 500%) in lower right of the application, similar to the feature in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It will also be keyboard accessible and available on the ribbon.
  • SEP 2025: Modernize Access Forms and Reports to work well on Large Format Monitors: Remove the 22-inch size limit and modernize Access forms and reports work well on large format monitors and provide responsive behavior for different form factors.

Rolling Out

None listed.

Launched

None listed.

Upcoming End-of-Life Dates

Here are the key end-of-life dates Access developers should track:

2024

2025

2026

2027

2029

  • [JAN 09] Windows Server 2019
  • [OCT 09] Access 2024 | Outlook 2024
  • [OCT 09 (or later)] Classic Outlook
    • See "Edit 8/12/2024" at top of this article for official clarification that "both perpetual and subscription [i.e., MS 365] versions of Outlook will be supported until 2029"
    • Support for Classic Outlook is guaranteed at least through 9 Oct 2029; it may be extended beyond this date

2030

2031

2033

2034

Ongoing

Date TBD