Access Europe – Colin Riddington (Large Monitor Support and Responsive Forms)
This Access Europe meeting will be on Wednesday 6 Aug 2025 starting at 18:00 UK time (6PM UTC+1) and finishing at about 19:30 (7.30PM)
The start time is equivalent to 19:00 (7PM) in Central Europe and 10AM in Seattle / PST
Please note that the UK will be on Summer Time (UTC+1) for this meeting. For local times, please check World Time Buddy
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Topic outline:
In this session, Colin Riddington will be discussing two significant new Access features recently announced and which will be rolling out to users starting in June and July 2025:
Add Zoom slider magnification to Microsoft Access
Access will add a magnification slider (10% to 500%) to the status bar at the lower right of the application, similar to the feature in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
It will also be keyboard accessible and available on the ribbon.
This responsive behaviour will be provided so that forms, reports and all controls can be adjusted for different screen resolutions and form factors.
In other words, Access will finally have a built-in feature similar to the functionality provided by Colin’s own Automatic Form Resizing code.
However, it is expected that this native functionality will have a broader scope.
Rollout of this new feature is expected to start in June 2025. It is likely that various parts of this feature will be released in 4 stages over a period of months starting with form view, then report view followed by datasheets and finally design view for both forms and reports.
Modernize Access Forms and Reports to work well on Large Format Monitors
As part of this, the current 22.75 inch limit on Access form and report widths will be removed so that both types of object can make effective use of the space available on large format monitors.
The new functionality will significantly increase this limit, probably by far more than just doubling it. Details to follow.
Rollout of this new feature is expected to start in July 2025.
For more details about both of these new features, see the article: Access Roadmap Updated Twice – Apr 2025
Background Info:
Colin has been an Access developer for over 25 years with many years teaching in secondary schools. He is the owner of Mendip Data Systems and is based in the U.K.
He has been awarded MVP status for M365 Apps & Services (Access) each year from 2022 onwards.
Colin is the chapter president of the Access Europe user group and has been a presenter at various Access online groups including Access DevCon, Denver Area AUG, UKAUG and the Lunchtime/Easter/Pacific and Espana chapters of AccessUserGroups.org.
He also part of a team of current and former MVPs contributing as both author and editor to the AccessForever website run by Karl Donaubauer (MVP).
Colin is active on many forums with the username Isladogs.
His Isladogs on Access website includes many Access articles, example apps, sample code and security challenges, together with commercial applications for businesses, schools and developers. He also has his own YouTube channel.
His focus is on extending the boundaries of what can be achieved using Access.
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