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fmsap1968
Tin Contributor
Aug 04, 2026

NEW FEATURES

 

I suggest these new features, which would be very useful for programmers.

 

✓ Native TreeView

✓ Modern ListView

✓ Advanced Grid

✓ Drag & Drop

✓ SVG support

✓ True Dark Mode themes

✓ Native PDF control

✓ Markdown control

access
developer
office 365

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  • fmsap1968's avatar
    fmsap1968
    Tin Contributor
    Aug 04, 2026

    ✅ Native TreeView Control

    ✅ Modern ListView Control

    ✅ Advanced Data Grid Control

    • Grouping
    • Filtering
    • Frozen columns
    • Multi-column sorting

    ✅ Drag & Drop Support

    • Records
    • Files
    • Controls

    ✅ Native SVG Support

    • SVG images
    • Scalable icons
    • Theme-aware graphics

    ✅ True Dark Mode

    • Forms
    • Reports
    • Navigation Pane
    • Property Sheets

    ✅ Native PDF Viewer Control

    • Embedded PDF viewing
    • Search
    • Print
    • Navigation

    ✅ Markdown Control

    • Markdown editor
    • Markdown rendering
    • Documentation pages
    • Help systems
    • isladogs's avatar
      isladogs
      MVP
      Aug 09, 2026

      I agree that many of these would be useful for Access developers. However, several are freely available or can be easily created now. For example

      • Treeview and DataGrid can both be created using HTML in an Edge browser control as well as many other items
      • PDF files can be viewed in an Edge (or legacy) browser control
      • If you have Access 365, the entire Access UI including the navigation pane, ribbon and property sheet are already theme aware and show true dark mode when black or dark grey themes are used
      • Forms can also be made theme aware. See my article Create Theme-Aware Forms in Access. The same approach would also work for report view though you really wouldn't want to print in dark mode!
      • Some drag and drop functionality is available but it mostly requires code

       

      SVG graphics support isn't available at the moment

      • fmsap1968's avatar
        fmsap1968
        Tin Contributor
        Aug 10, 2026

        Thanks for the suggestions,

        but the code editor is 30 years old.

        VBA might not be the most widely used language, but it is the most universal. Every programmer using Office 365 or 2024 uses it. I think it's time they created an editor for Office similar to Visual Studio Code.

        It’s baffling that the world's most popular product still has such a primitive and outdated editor.

         

        As for the suggestions to use the web to work around the issues that’s still just a stopgap solution.