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I'm here a couple of years later, looking for stuff I've forgotten or never knew because I was too busy meeting deadlines. Editing code on 80 or 96 col cards is a pain, but try doing it on paper tape using a Friden Flexowriter. I also had fun with 80 col cards. I worked for Burroughs in the...

That one annoys me too. And the way they've made it more difficult to swap between windows. I sometimes wonder if the people making these changes have ever seen how developers use the platform.

I'm using Access 2016 and one of the features of this version is annoying me. I need to add an extra column to a report. I've been used to selecting all the fields in an existing column (e.g. page header, detail, group total, report total) and doing a ctrl-c, ctrl-v. In previous versions that I...

Very sound advice. I would go in stronger than that. In my view, "splitting the database" should never be required. You should always start a new project by creating two databases: "Data" and "Code". Never, ever, ever create an Access database system with data (tables) and program (everything...

I have over 45 years experience in IT. The first half was developing big systems for big clients with big teams. Mega million $ projects. Mostly mainframe using IBM IMS or Burroughs DMS II. That was when I had a job. The second half was Access with SQL Server back-ends. I tended to use T-SQL...