- Microsoft Access should support the ability to compile an Access Database to an EXE so that the end user cannot see the tables and queries.
Author: Adam Cogan
Make a “Save As” option for pictures
Please add another menu item to this right click menu “Save As” just like Internet Explorer.
Add “Move to Folder” function
Figure: Please add a “Move To Folder” function (like in Outlook)
Automatic File Version Increment
It would be really useful if Office documents (e.g. Word, Excel) would have an option to increment the file version every time a document is saved and closed.
For example, if you opened
Session1_ExtremeProgramming_Access97to2003_AdamCogan_v3.ppt,
made a changed, saved and closed the document, the filename would update to
Session1_ExtremeProgramming_Access97to2003_AdamCogan_v4.ppt.
This would help ensure that the latest version is being used and that you can determine at a glance which version of a document is the newest.
Why can’t I add custom tag’s to the FrontPage validator?
In Tools – Page Options, users should be able to add custom tags. (eg missing span). Currently I need to switch to Dreamweaver to use this functionality.
Figure: …nor in Front Page 2003 Beta 2
Hide the progress bar at the end of send/receive process
The progress bar should be hidden at the end of the long process. We have a rule about this, please refer to Long Process – Do you know how to make long-running processes user-friendly?
Figure: The progress bar will be hidden at the end of send/receive progress
Add the ability to have a contents page added to an email
This functionality existed in Outlook 2003.
Figure: Table of Contents functionality in MS Word 2007
Remove RTF as an option or explain when it is a good choice
I see nothing good about it and outlook handles RTF poorly by replacing images with ” << OLE Object: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) >> ”
Also change “HTML” to “HTML (recommended)”:
Figure: Change “HTML” to “HTML (recommended)” and remove Rich Text
Number of visible “All Day Event” should not be limited by window size [Fixed by adding separate scroll bar in Outlook 2007]
Figure: Only 7 all day events are visibleFrom the screenshot below, we can see 7 all day events, and it looks like that’s all on the date.
Now we maximized Outlook, and we can see up to 11 all day events.
Figure: We can see more all day events when Outlook is maximized
In fact, these 11 all day events are not all on the date. There are more, but the rest is not visible due to the limited window size and screen resolution.
This is seriously annoying, a user might think that the all day events they entered have gone missing. And they might miss an appointment if the reminder alarm is not set.
The only way to see more is to change your screen resolution to a bigger one. If you still can’t see all, then hide some of the toolbars so that you have more space for Outlook to show the all day events, but how pratical is this?
Why can’t the all day events be put on to a scrollable panel? (like Outlook 2007, or Outlook Web Access)
Or at least, it should show a message to inform users not all of the all day events are visible!
Outlook progress difficult to see
When the Send/Receive button is clicked in Outlook a progress window is shown. Using the words “Completed” and “Processing” can have a nasty side effect of not being able to easily see which messages are still to be processed. A better Solution would be to change the word “Completed” by the word “Done”.
Figure: Outlook progress window