What’s New in Microsoft Access 97?

The World Wide Web

Publish to the Web   Output a set of Microsoft Access tables, queries, forms, and reports to static or dynamic HTML format by using the Publish to the Web Wizard. Then you can publish them on an intranet or the Internet. You can give all your documents the same look by using your own templates or by using the ones the wizard provides.

Active Web   Add a hyperlink to a Microsoft Access table, query, or form that jumps to another Microsoft Access database object. You can add a hyperlink that jumps to an Office document or to a specific location in a document, such as a paragraph in a Word document or a cell in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. You can also import or attach (read-only) to tables through an FTP or HTTP server.

Work Smarter

Toolbars, menu bars, and shortcut menus   Create new toolbars, menu bars, and shortcut menus, and customize the ones that are built-in, just by dragging and dropping menus, commands, and buttons and by setting properties. You can also add menus to toolbars, and you can add toolbar button icons to their associated menu commands.

Tab control   Create tabbed dialog boxes and forms by using the tab control on forms.

Filter by Form and Filter by Selection   New in Office 95, these features allow you to find information with just a few mouse clicks. Simply select the information you want, and Microsoft Access quickly finds all records that contain that information.

Form Wizard   New in Office 95. By using Microsoft Access forms created with the Form Wizard, you can simplify entering data into your Microsoft Excel list or database.

Format Painter   New in Office 95. Quickly copy formatting characteristics from one control to another by using the Format Painter.

Performance Analyzer Wizard   New in Office 95. Analyze the tables, queries, forms, and other objects in your database to make them work as fast and efficiently as possible. The Performance Analyzer Wizard automatically makes some changes for you and provides suggestions for other improvements that you can make.

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Want to know more? Look up Getting Results - What’s New in Help.