Microsoft Office 2007 - Access Interface Tip
I have recently installed Microsoft Vista Business along with Microsoft Office 2007. I have beta tested Vista, so I kinda knew what I was getting into but Office 2007 was quite a shocker. The interface for all Office applications has changed drastically. I will be documenting things I learn as I go here on my blog as a reference.
The first thing comes from Access 2007. The default layout of the application has a navigation panel on the left side, which lists tables, queries, etc. The default view is set to "Tables and Related Views" which shows only tables and any other objects that relate to them (obviously by the title). This view confuses the crap out of me. I want something remotely similar to Access 2003. I found by right-clicking the navigation bar header, you can categorize by "Object Type". This view is much clearer to me as it shows all database objects separated by type. It seems obvious now, but it took me 2 hours to finally figure this out.
