The A-Team is pleased to announce that the long-awaited release of Access modern charts is now available to all users in the 365 Current Channel. There are 10 new chart types: area, radar, arc, box and whisker, bubble, doughnut, funnel, scatter, waterfall, word cloud. In addition, we’ve added additional features in both new and existing charts including gridlines, data labels in pie, arc, doughnut charts, and a new settings task pane for each chart type.     NOTE: The changes are only being implemented in Access 365. a) For users running Access 2016/2019/2021 and upcoming 2024 pe ..read more

The Access developer research panel is comprised of Access developers who will help shape and influence the product evolution. By participating, you have the opportunity to help us prioritize upcoming features, share pain points, and provide your scenarios to help us improve. As a member of the research panel, you will receive invitations to participate in user research studies. You can decide how frequently you want to participate and which studies to complete. You can opt out of the panel or any study at any time. This is the overall Microsoft 365 developer panel, but we'll be send out speci ..read more

In this blog post, we highlight some of the fixed issues that our Access engineers released in the current monthly channel.     If you see a bug that impacts you, and if you are on the current monthly channel Version 2404, you should have these fixes. Make sure you are on Access Build # 16.0.17531.20120 or greater.    Bug Name  Issue Fixed   Characters in the extended range of support not correctly exported to HTML  When exporting data to HTML, some characters would not be represented properly when the HTML file was viewed, and would dis ..read more

    In this blog post, we highlight some of the fixed issues that our Access engineers released in the current monthly channel.     If you see a bug that impacts you, and if you are on the current monthly channel Version 2403, you should have these fixes. Make sure you are on Access Build # 16.0.17425.20138 or greater.    Bug Name  Issue Fixed   Error “Primary key already exists.” when refreshing a link to a SQL Server table. This error could be generated when using the Refresh Link menu item for a linked table and would also produc ..read more

This set of fixes covers two versions, so all fixes are available in version 2402, which was released on February 28th, 2024. In this blog post, we highlight some of the fixed issues that our Access engineers released in the current monthly channel.     If you see a bug that impacts you, and if you are on the current monthly channel Version 2402, you should have these fixes. Make sure you are on Access Build # 16.0.17328.20142 or greater.    Bug Name  Issue Fixed   Autocomplete for a Combo Box control may not work if the dropdown displays numbe ..read more

Our newest round of Access bug fixes was released on January 4th, 2024. In this blog post, we highlight some of the fixed issues that our Access engineers released in the current monthly channel.     If you see a bug that impacts you, and if you are on the current monthly channel Version 2312, you should have these fixes. Make sure you are on Access Build # 16.0.17126.20126 or greater.    Bug Name  Issue Fixed   No list of font sizes when Aptos font is selected  Aptos is the default font for controls in a new database using the recently ..read more

Our newest round of Access bug fixes was released on November 25th, 2023. In this blog post, we highlight some of the fixed issues that our Access engineers released in the current monthly channel.     If you see a bug that impacts you, and if you are on the current monthly channel Version 2311, you should have these fixes. Make sure you are on Access Build # 16.0.17029.20068 or greater.    Bug Name  Issue Fixed   Reserved error -1001 when using a reserved word in a SQL query  This would only happen if the option to use “SQL Server Compa ..read more

Our newest round of Access bug fixes was released on October 25th, 2023. In this blog post, we highlight some of the fixed issues that our Access engineers released in the current monthly channel.     If you see a bug that impacts you, and if you are on the current monthly channel Version 2310, you should have these fixes. Make sure you are on Access Build # 16.0.16924.20106 or greater.    Bug Name  Issue Fixed   Crash when opening a linked Dataverse table  This could happen if a link was opened in a session when the import/export wizard ..read more

The new Office theme specifies an updated standard color palette and type font that will be applied to new databases in Access.  This doesn't affect the appearance of existing documents in previously created databases. The new theme is currently available in Beta and Current Channel (Preview) channels and will appear for some customers in Version 2310, and all customers in subsequent versions.    New default Office font The default font used in databases and for form controls will change from Calibri to Aptos. Learn more about the history of Aptos here. To us ..read more

Access Releases 8 Issue Fixes in Version 2309 (Released September 28th, 2023)    Our newest round of Access bug fixes was released on September 28th, 2023. In this blog post, we highlight some of the fixed issues that our Access engineers released in the current monthly channel.     If you see a bug that impacts you, and if you are on the current monthly channel build 2309, you should have these fixes. Make sure you are on Access Build # 16.0.16827.20130 or greater.    Bug Name  Issue Fixed   When saving a table, we may duplicate the ..read more