Does anyone know whether there is a way to create folders inside the
right payne when you click on Tables or Queries or Forms or Reports
in the the Objects side.
I have alot of queries and forms that would be nice to put into folders
for organizational reasons.
I assume not but thought this would be the place to ask.
If not does anyone know how you would send Microsoft a suggestion? Or
is this a rediculous idea?
Thanks
Rob
John Welch - 04 Jan 2006 22:58 GMT
Never heard of that, though it would be nice. You can have them arranged by
type or date created or give them prefixes such that they're ordered
logically when alphabetized.
> Does anyone know whether there is a way to create folders inside the
> right payne when you click on Tables or Queries or Forms or Reports
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> Thanks
> Rob
Anthony England - 04 Jan 2006 23:01 GMT
> Does anyone know whether there is a way to create folders inside the
> right payne when you click on Tables or Queries or Forms or Reports
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> Thanks
> Rob
It looks like the built in groups tab will do exactly what you are looking
for:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=31559&seqNum=2&rl=1
John Welch - 04 Jan 2006 23:12 GMT
Well, whaddya know! thanks Anthony, I never noticed that.
-John
> It looks like the built in groups tab will do exactly what you are looking
> for:
> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=31559&seqNum=2&rl=1
Anthony England - 04 Jan 2006 23:01 GMT
> Does anyone know whether there is a way to create folders inside the
> right payne when you click on Tables or Queries or Forms or Reports
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> Thanks
> Rob
It looks like the built in groups tab will do exactly what you are looking
for:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=31559&seqNum=2&rl=1
David W. Fenton - 04 Jan 2006 23:32 GMT
> Does anyone know whether there is a way to create folders inside
> the right payne when you click on Tables or Queries or Forms or
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> If not does anyone know how you would send Microsoft a suggestion?
> Or is this a rediculous idea?
Anthony has pointed you to a feature planned for Access 12 that
would seem to allow you to do this.
As I am certain you are not using Access 12, I would suggest the use
of some sort of naming convention as a way of grouping the objects.
I would also suggest that if you have such an overabundance of
objects that you might try to make more of them dynamic, so that you
can re-use a smaller number of objects. I have seen plenty of Access
beginners who create a report, apply criteria and save it with the
criteria, and then do this each time they need to apply criteria to
a report. It's much easier to have one report and apply the criteria
to that report as needed. However, it's not quite as easy to put
that together as it is to edit the report and save it under a new
name.

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Anthony England - 04 Jan 2006 23:36 GMT
>> Does anyone know whether there is a way to create folders inside
>> the right payne when you click on Tables or Queries or Forms or
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> that together as it is to edit the report and save it under a new
> name.
This feature is available on my Access XP machine and I believe it has been
there since Access 2000.