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This month: the 100th AFo article, a major update to VBA, roadmap delays, support cycle reminder, conferences, and more

VBScript Regular Expression are replicated in VBA and a lot of FUD over the VBScript deprecation is resolved.

In this overview article, we inform you about (mostly minor) bugs, changes and new features for Access in July and August. 1.   Bug:...

There are currently some negative changes taking place in the Access forums. Here we report on which forums we use and describe them to help you find your way around.

The annual (re)nomination round of Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) happened on July 10. MVPs are independent expert users...

This month, the focus is on M365 update channels and their use, a Preview bug and planned changes. Plus, Roadmap delays, Microsoft's forum changes and more.

Discover why the ability to use Microsoft Graph from VBA is important and find out what steps are necessary to connect to the data. Explore the different resources accessible in the API. Learn about an important tool available for VBA developers and how to see this in action.

Causes, phases and frequency of update bugs. Prevent, diagnose, mitigate, find targeted information. Contribute with your reports and findings to speed up the fix.

We have frequently had positive experiences with rapid implementation of change requests and we want to report on some examples.

Microsoft is constantly pushing the switch to New Outlook, that deprives VBA developers of Outlook automation. What's the current status?

Access 2024 was released on 1st October with new features for the perpetual version, a new support guarantee and reduced purchase options.

Many Access developers regularly create queries in SQL view then convert them to VBA strings or vice versa. It can be very tedious...

The annual (re)nomination round of Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) happened in early July. It took us a few days to clarify...

Microsoft has not modernized VBA or the development environment for many years. It is for that reason that I have supported the work of...

Microsoft has published which applications will be part of the next perpetual Office and will again receive five years of guaranteed...

If an update for Microsoft 365 contains a relevant bug, we will inform you on AFo about workarounds and the planned fix date. But...

The regular updates of Microsoft 365 contain new features and other intended changes, but sometimes they also come with problems and...

PARTY! Exactly 1 year ago, after some preparatory work, I published the first articles here. The aim was to improve the information about...

Many of you are aware of the datatype DateTimeExtended that was added to Microsoft Access a couple of years ago so that we could record...

In a recent article , I described that Microsoft is working on a New Outlook to replace all current Outlook variants, including the...