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Our Road Ahead - Microsoft Access Engineering Priorities Oct 2022

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Michael_Aldridge
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Oct 13, 2022
If you remember back in May 2022, we blogged about moving to a new model for how we communicate our Access feature priorities vs. the Microsoft Public Roadmap.   We promised we would communicate ...
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Karl_Donaubauer
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Dec 12, 2023

Hi,

 

> Have there been any discussions around the possibility of a built in integration between Access and Power Query?

 

Yes. In 2017, a German colleague wrote a request for the integration of PowerQuery into Access on UserVoice, Microsoft's wish page at the time. As we organised a little campaign in our German-speaking Access community, 😉 the topic got a lot of votes and reached number 1. Here is a screenshot:

 

Unfortunately, the response of the Microsoft Access team in early 2018 was negative, with the argument of not wanting to compete with Excel. Here is another screenshot from back then:

 

 

BTW The current plans of the Access team until March 2024 can be found here.

 

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Karl
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