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That said, Microsoft has made some changes in the format of the .accdb data file. You may have
some difficulty opening some of this book’s example databases in Access 2007. This does not mean
that the file is necessarily corrupted — it just means that Access 2007 is unable to work with the
additional objects (such as data macros) that may be present in an Access 2010 database file.However, all the other chapters on database design, queries, forms, reports, VBA programming,
optimization, and so on, are equally applicable to Access 2007 and 2010 application development.Pardon My Dust!
It almost goes without saying that this book was written during the Access 2010 beta testing phase,
months before the release of Office 2010. It’s possible that a few of the figures in this book don’t
exactly match what you see when you open Access 2010, or that the terminology will have
changed from the time I wrote the book to the time you install Access 2010 on your computer.
Please bear with me. Microsoft has done a great job of documenting its plans and expectations for
Access 2010 and, as an author, I’ve done my best to explain the many changes in Access 2010. I
hope that any differences you encounter between my descriptions and explanations and your expe-
rience with Access 2010 are minor and don’t impact your workflow.Please feel free to drop me an email at [email protected] if you have a question or
comment about the material in the Microsoft Access 2010 Bible. Also, contact me if you have a more
general question about development with Access or SQL Server, and I’ll try to help you out. Please
be sure to prefix the subject line of your e-mail with “Access Bible” to get past the spam blocker on
this account.Several of the chapter folders on the book’s CD include a readme file. Please be sure to check the
contents of this file because it contains information that became available after the book was sent
for publication or helps explain how to use the example in the chapter’s folder.Conventions Used in This Book
I use the following conventions in this book:l When you’re instructed to press a key combination (press and hold down one key while
pressing another key), the key combination is separated by a plus sign. Ctrl+Esc, for
example, indicates that you must hold down the Ctrl key and press the Esc key; then
release both keys.
l Point the mouse refers to moving the mouse so that the mouse pointer is on a specific item.
Click refers to pressing the left mouse button once and releasing it. Double-click refers to
pressing the left mouse button twice in rapid succession and then releasing it. Right-click
refers to pressing the right mouse button once and releasing it. Drag refers to pressing and
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