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- Data access pages connect Web pages to Data Source control
- This Daily Drill Down concludes Rick Dobson's five-part series on Office XP Web Components. Rick drills down on data access pages, which are the user interface for the Data Source control.Microsoft offers excellent Help materials for data access pages and the Data Source control, but there’s considerably less information on...
- Tags: Databases, Microsoft Office, Rick Dobson, data access page, data access, data source, database, Data Source control, Web
- Technical articles 2002-05-08
- Get IT Done: Round out your Office XP Web Component knowledge with the PivotTable List control
- Knowing techniques for using the PivotTable list control can help your users by relieving them of the burden of making database connections and specifying valid field names for analysesThe PivotTable List control, a part of the Office XP Web Component package, enables the creation of a tabular display, known as...
- Tags: Databases, PRODUCTIVITY, knowledge, Rick Dobson, Microsoft Office, Get IT Done, PivotTable List, Office XP Web, database, Microsoft Office XP
- Technical articles 2002-01-30
- Chart your course with Office XP chart controls
- Creating charts programmatically with the Chartspace control eases users' frustration; they'll no longer have to reformat charts. Rick Dobson builds the code samples to show you how to master this handy Office XP Web Component.This Daily Drill Down on the basics of creating charts programmatically with the Chartspace control has...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Rick Dobson, Chartspace, Chartspace control, Daily Drill-Down, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office
- Technical articles 2002-01-28
- Put your data where your Web page is with Office XP's Spreadsheet component
- Continuing with his series on Office XP Web Components, Rick Dobson shows how to make your spreadsheets run with the Web. This Daily Drill Down explains everything from tapping external data sources to using Microsoft Script Editor to spruce up the page.Office XP’s Web Components are promising new tools for...
- Tags: Sales strategy, PRODUCTIVITY, Sales force management, Channel management, Rick Dobson, Figure B, spreadsheet, sales, Spreadsheet Component, cell, Web, calculator, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office
- Technical articles 2001-09-17
- Introducing Office XP Web Components
- Office XP offers more than just a pretty new GUI. In this first Daily Drill Down of his five-part series, Rick Dobson gives an overview of Office XP Web Components, which provide the nuts and bolts of Web page authoring.The Office XP Web Components, which ship as part of Office...
- Tags: Channel management, PRODUCTIVITY, Spreadsheet Component, Rick Dobson, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office XP, Web, Office XP Web Components, Office XP Web, Web Components
- Technical articles 2001-08-20
- Configure IT Quick: Managing disks in Windows 2000
- Master Windows 2000s Disk Management tools to create new partitions and set up extended, spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes on a dynamic diskAn Access project is one of the jewels that Microsoft slipped into Microsoft Access 2000. I liked it so much that I wrote a book on the...
- Tags: Databases, Microsoft Office, Enterprise software, information technology, Rick Dobson, Microsoft Windows 2000, disk, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Access, Access Project, Microsoft SQL Server
- Technical articles 2000-11-23
- Publishing databases with Microsoft FrontPage 2000
- FrontPage 2000 offers an easy way to publish databases to the Web. Easier than programming them, anyway. In this Daily Drill Down, Rick Dobson presents a tutorial to help you get started.Publishing databases can be tricky for those who do not regularly work with databases on the Web. For IT...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, Step 1, Microsoft FrontPage 2000, Rick Dobson, Web, Microsoft Corp., database, Microsoft FrontPage
- Technical articles 2000-11-30
- Making Web pages with interactive crosstabs
- The PivotTable list control introduced with Office 2000 may be the custom decision-support tool your company needs. Find out about its capabilities.Does your organization need custom decision-support tools that work on its Web pages? If so, the PivotTable list control introduced with Office 2000 may be the answer. Pivot tables...
- Tags: Channel management, Databases, Rick Dobson, PivotTable, data field, Microsoft Office, Web
- Technical articles 2000-10-05
- Working with conditional formats in Access
- Conditionally displaying formats used to require programming. In Access 2000, a new menu command makes assigning conditional formats to text boxes and combo boxes as easy as writing an expression.Microsoft Access is widely acclaimed for its ability to prepare great-looking forms and reports quickly. However, until Access 2000, conditionally displaying...
- Tags: Databases, Rick Dobson, conditional format, Microsoft Access
- Technical articles 2000-03-30
- FrontPage and Access guest books
- Rick Dobson shows you how to collect contact information with FrontPage 2000 wizards in HTML format.Web sites often run promotions that offer prizes or other benefits in exchange for visitors submitting contact information and completing a guest book form. FrontPage 2000 and earlier versions of FrontPage enable web administrators to...
- Tags: Databases, Rick Dobson, contact information, Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Access, guest book, Web
- Technical articles 2000-03-28
- Access and SQL Server datasheets on FrontPage webs
- In FrontPage 2000, you can create datasheets for a Web site with a redesigned Export command. Rick Dobson demonstrates manual techniques for publishing static datasheets and shows you how to publish datasheets with ASP technology.Webmasters and database administrators often need to publish datasheets. A datasheet is the data in a...
- Tags: Channel management, Scripting languages, Databases, server, Rick Dobson, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft FrontPage, datasheet, Web, Microsoft ASP, Microsoft Access
- Technical articles 2000-03-24
- Do you need a network connection for an Access project to work with an SQL Server Database?
- Rick Dobson examines the Microsoft Data Engine MSDE, a free version of the Microsoft SQL Server.The Microsoft Data Engine MSDE is a free version of the Microsoft SQL Server. As of this writing, MSDE ships exclusively with Microsoft Office 2000 and Access 2000. In this article, we'll compare MSDE with...
- Tags: Databases, Rick Dobson, Microsoft Access, network connection, database, network, Microsoft Data Engine, Microsoft SQL Server
- Technical articles 2000-02-21
- Building solutions with MSDE and Access 2000
- Rick Dobson discusses the architectural and management issues that you need to understand in order to build solutions with MSDE and Microsoft Access projects.Access 2000 sports two new features that dramatically enhance its ability to manage client/server solutions. First, it ships with the Microsoft Data Engine MSDE as an alternative...
- Tags: Databases, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, Rick Dobson, database, Microsoft Data Engine, Microsoft Access, Access Project
- Technical articles 2000-02-23
- Get IT Done: Building database Web solutions with Access 2000
- Use Access 2000 to build database Web solutionsMicrosoft Access 2000 introduces a new collection that dramatically increases the ease with which Webmasters and database administrators DBAs can provide databases as part of their Web solutions. Data access pages are similar to traditional Access forms and reports, but they also work...
- Tags: Channel management, Databases, Microsoft Office, Get IT Done, Microsoft Access 2000, database, Rick Dobson, data access page, data access, Web, Microsoft Access
- Technical articles 2000-02-17
- Office Web Components deliver interactive Web pages
- Office Web Components, a collection of ActiveX controls, are an Office 2000 innovation. Rick Dobson explains how to make your Web pages interactive with Office Web Components.Office Web Components, a collection of ActiveX controls, are an Office 2000 innovation that empowers Webmasters to deliver Office component features from Web pages....
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Channel management, Chart Component, Rick Dobson, Microsoft Office, Office Web, Office Web Components, spreadsheet, Web, Spreadsheet Component, Microsoft Office 2000
- Technical articles 2000-02-25
- An introduction to Access 2000 database replication
- Rick Dobson introduces the basics of database replication with Microsoft Access 2000.Database replication is an IT pro topic to its core. The basic idea behind replication is to permit multiple copies of a database to perform independently but make them respond as if they were identical copies of the same...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, Microsoft Office, Rick Dobson, Access replication, Database replication, database, Microsoft Access, replication, replica
- Technical articles 2000-02-11
- Using Access 2000 Replication menu commands
- Rick Dobson demonstrates how you can benefit from the Replication menu commands in Microsoft Access 2000.Database replication is a sophisticated, enterprise-oriented technology. Access 2000 unlocks the core benefits of this technology for IT pros with a simplicity that underscores its raw power and ease of use. The Access 2000 menu...
- Tags: Databases, Microsoft Office, Storage, Rick Dobson, Database replication, replica, Microsoft Access, Access 2000, database, Create Replica, replication, menu command
- Technical articles 2000-02-15
- Getting started with Office Server Extensions
- Rick Dobson examines the basics of the new Office Server Extensions OSE technology that was introduced with Office 2000.Microsoft Office 2000 offers several new features for team collaboration over an intranet. When employees must jointly use or develop Word, rich text, or HTML files, these new features can add significant...
- Tags: Web servers, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Corp., Rick Dobson, Office Server Extensions
- Technical articles 2000-02-09
- Using Replication Manager
- Rick Dobson shows you how to install, configure, and start using Replication Manager 4.0, a tool that can simplify the management of distributed Jet replica sets.This article focuses on Replication Manager 4.0, a tool that can simplify the management of distributed Jet replica sets in many ways. For example, Replication...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Rick Dobson, synchronizer, Replication Manager, replica
- Technical articles 2000-02-03
- Deploying ADP solutions
- Rick Dobson discusses the new ADP hybrid file type, which provides Access' rapid application development capabilities and SQL Server's industrial-strength database handling.Microsoft recently introduced the new ADP file type. ADP is a hybrid file type: It has a graphical user interface GUI that resembles a traditional Access solution, but it...
- Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Rick Dobson, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Microsoft SQL Server, SQL-DMO, server, database
- Technical articles 2000-02-02
