List of Access Bug Fixes in 2026

Since 2022, Microsoft's Access team has been publishing a list of Access fixes on its blog every few months. To make this information more visible and searchable, we are collecting the full list for 2026 here and link to the Microsoft posts where you can find more description. Previous lists:  2025 (40 items), 2024 (43 items), 2023 (88 items), 2022 (54 items)

Apr 2026 (2)

Version 2604

1. Values display in the wrong control when using a form as a sublist

2. Applications that use the Access Database Engine (ACEOLEDB) terminate unexpectedly on exit

3. Long Text field corrupted when a query updates a record while a user is editing it

4. Rendering errors with Aptos (Detail) font

5. Standard colors in Access didn't match other Office apps

6. Option Group with Vertical Anchor Bottom: option buttons show incorrect visual state after clicking

7. Query Design: Insert/Delete Columns don't work when ribbon is set to Show Tabs Only

8. SQL View: Ctrl+K should toggle pretty formatting off/on

9. Monaco editor incorrectly converts Unicode characters in SQL view

10. Importing text files with Unicode characters in the filename fails

11. Added VarP and StDevP to the Totals query aggregate dropdown

12. Added VarP and StDevP to the datasheet totals row dropdown

13. Access hangs at shutdown when VBA holds temporary DAO field references

14. Full Screen Mode ribbon display option does nothing in Access

Apr 2026 (1)

Version 2603

1. Edge Browser Control didn't navigate from code when inside a tab control

2. Some Unicode characters displayed incorrectly in Quick Import

3. Modern Chart titles truncated in Print Preview

4. Some Unicode characters displayed incorrectly in exported object names

5. Some Unicode characters displayed incorrectly in error messages for long object names

6. Standard colors in Access didn't match other Office apps

7. Field.Properties("Precision") and Properties("Scale") on a query column caused the query to execute

8. Toggle filter button in status bar didn't work when no records were displayed

9. PDF files with capitalized extension didn't render in Edge Browser Control

10. Monaco SQL editor inserted blank lines in multi-line comments

Mar 2026

Version 2602

1. Monaco query editor applied unwanted autoformatting to passthrough queries

2. Monaco query editor font size did not match Access settings

3. Datasheet selection could extend past the last column

Feb 2026

Version 2512

1. Datasheet forms with nested subforms showing errors after system changes

2. F4 key did not open the Properties pane in the Query SQL editor

3. Pressing F5 in the Query SQL editor cleared all SQL text

4. Text not visible when renaming items in the Navigation Pane in dark themes

5. Advanced Filter/Sort opened a standalone query window instead of a filter window

6. Refreshing an Access ODBC connection in Excel returned an error

Version 2511

1. Query Design view showed incorrect joins after selecting SQL text