Bad Office 2007 interface

[Duncan]

In our office we struggle with the 2007 user interface. Personally I am
deal with the ACCESS the most. Here's what I say:

Previous version of ACCESS allow user to sort objects in modify date,
create date and even the description property. The 2007 version seems
to lack of these functions. With the amount of query and table we
build, the sort by name only option is simply crazy. This require you
to code your name very carefully and you can never change the name
since some other queries may build on top this query. What we used to
do is use the description to organize our queries. The advantages is
that you can modify the description field anyway you want without
broken other queries.

Do anyone know if this sorting by description is possible in 2007? I
am really disappointed at this point that MS single handed think they
know best about the interface and without letting user to decide -
like the windows - user can select classical style.

It's a really bad decision on MS' side. I want the old interface back!!

I think the inflexibility is, in general, show on all 2007 products. Like
can use your own icon for Excel Macro - How MS decide that it knows what kind
of macro we wrote and can predict that the only icon we need is in MS's list?
That is really crazy!


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[UpRider]

Duncan, it's all there. You gotta dig it out.
LEFT click on the top of the navigation pane and select ALL ACCESS OBJECTS
RIGHT click on the top of the navigation pane and select VIEW BY - DETAILS
RIGHT click on the top of the navigation pane and select SORT BY - and
away you go!

UpRider

 

[Duncan]

UpRider,

Got it. But I still don't like the interface. For one, the list is not
dockable and it take a lot of space repeating 'Date Created', 'Date Modified'
for each entry. I used be able to work with 4 program on my screen, now I
need the whole screen just to work effectively with ACCESS 2007.

Thanks for the help. But I still sad.

Duncan

 

[Duncan]

Well. It still won't sort by description/properties!

I like the old UI!

 

[Marnie]

I totally agree. I do not like this interface and cannot figure out how to
sort by description either. If anyone has any tips please let us know!

Thanks!

 

[André Minhorst]

Hi,

I totally agree. I do not like this interface and cannot figure out how to
sort by description either. If anyone has any tips please let us know!

the search function of the navigation pane might help. Activate the
navigation pane, click strg + f and a search textbox appears on top of it.

Here you can input any portion of the name of the object you are looking
for - even if it is not the beginning of the object's name.

Bye
André

 

[Marnie]

This still will not search the description but searching the name helps a lot.

Thanks for the tip!