As part of our continual promise to bring value and support to our Access customers, we are beginning a new blog series. These posts will highlight some of the work our Access engineering team does every month, you might not be aware of, fixing issues important to our customers and released in the previous month.
This month’s 13 issues reported by customers or found internally were all included in the May monthly release which also included the Access Connector for Dataverse. Office releases monthly and a semi-annual basis.
If you see an issue here that impacts you, and you are on the current monthly channel, you should have got these fixed. Make sure you are on version 2205 (build 16.0.15225.20000 or greater) to ensure you have these fixes.
Issue Name |
Type of Issue Fixed |
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Update "web experience" string in Client Settings | This fix removes the "web experience" setting in Access Client Settings since Access Services has been deprecated and this setting is no longer relevant |
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The fishbowl color in Access is incorrect with the new Office Fluent work |
Updated Access colors to conform to updated Microsoft 365 standards |
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Navigation pane background doesn't match the background color of other panes |
Updated navigation pane background to match other Office panes |
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Access Connectivity Engine (ACE) which replaced the JET DB engine in Access 2007, Out of Memory Error when looping through record set in VBA in Excel or Word | Fixed an issue that could cause the app to close unexpectedly if memory requirements grow too rapidly for applications using DAO or OLEDB interfaces to read Access databases. |
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ODBC issue where column name of 64 characters | Fixed a problem where the Access Linked Table Manager was unable to open a SQL linked table if the table contains a column with a name of more than 63 characters. |
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Unintended line breaks happen if the data have Unicode Ideographic Variation Sequence (IVS) characters |
Fixed an issue where unintended line breaks could occur for languages with Unicode Ideographic Variation Sequence characters. |
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When closing the Edit Link dialog using the Linked Table Manager (LTM), the Linked Table Manager also closes |
Pressing escape in "edit link" dialog or other secondary dialogs no longer also closes the linked table manager |
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FormatCondition.Enabled is neither True nor False |
Fixed Evaluation of FormatCondition. Enabled flag to return correct data. |
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Dataverse Connector - improve wording to indicate the export error table will identify all specific tables and columns when there are unsupported fields |
Improved descriptive text for the Access Dataverse export dialog to better explain the creation of an Access error table when the table for export contains unsupported fields. |
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Access crashes when applying multiple filters to a value list lookup |
Fixed crash in Access that occurred when applying multiple filters to a value list lookup |
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Access 2016 cannot process large .csv files on linked table with error "Your computer is out of disk space" |
Fixed an issue where Access 2016 threw an error "Your computer is out of disk space," when the app could not process large .csv files on linked tables. |
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Access Charts are not showing currency fields with a localized currency symbol |
We fixed an issue so that modern charts will now show localized currency symbols when currency values are formatted. |
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Close button in document tab is disabled for Macro Builder |
We fixed an issue where the close button was being disabled in the Macro Builder tab. |
Next month we will highlight a new list of issues fixed that are included in the June monthly release.
Let us know if this new blog series is helpful and any feedback you have.
-The Access Team
Microsoft
