Resetting an AutoNumber field in Microsoft Access

I was recently working with Microsoft Access to store some basic data and I wanted to reset an AutoNumber field in my MS Access database, so I found this article which described just how to do that!

How to reset an AutoNumber field value in Access

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/812718

Setting up Outlook with Google Mail and allowing Less Secure Apps

If you want to set up Outlook with your Google Mail account, you will want to check out this article: https://support.google.com/mail/topic/3398031?hl=en&authuser=1

If you are having trouble with signing-in with your Outlook Email Client, then this article is an absolute must: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/14257?hl=en&ref_topic=3397962

It basically points you to a setting that Google Mail uses which prevents "less secure" clients from accessing Google Mail by default: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255

Therefore, you need to go into this setting for your Google account and allow "Access for less secure apps": https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

Once you turn on this setting, you should then be able to access your Google Mail using your Outlook email client!!

Get Microsoft OneNote for Free!

If you have Microsoft OneNote in the past, you may think of the software that is typically bundled with every release of Microsoft Office.

However, Microsoft recently announced that it will be providing OneNote for FREE to all users!!

The details of Microsoft OneNote being released to the general public can be found here: http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/17/onenote-now-on-mac-free-everywhere-and-service-powered/

You can download the free version of Microsoft OneNote here: http://www.onenote.com/

Exporting and importing e-mail signatures in MS Outlook

One of the operations that I have to configure each time I re-install the OS on my work computer is my e-mail signature in Outlook.

Each time I re-build my OS, I have to re-configure Outlook on my machine.  While I can archive my e-mail messages, I have discovered that every release of MS Office thus far does not offer me the ability to export (and subsequently import) my Outlook e-mail signature.  This information seems to sit out there in limbo and is not attached to my MS Exchange Profile (which would be preferable).

The process that I use right now is looking back at an e-mail message that contains my old E-mail Signature or creating a screenshot of my E-mail Signature prior to performing the re-install/re-build of my machine.  I then have to re-create my E-mail Signature in Outlook based on what I had previously captured.

Of course, this process is very annoying and not guaranteed to replicate my e-mail signature EXACTLY (same font color, font size etc.) as it was before.  I really wish that Microsoft would simply offer an Export and Import button on the E-mail Signature dialog so that I could easily backup these settings prior to a system rebuild.

If you are like me and also wish that Microsoft would offer an Export/Import button for the E-mail Signature dialog, please vote for this UserVoice Feedback Item here: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/3690660-export-e-mail-signature-in-outlook

Hotmail.com now looks like Office 2013!

If you want to try out the revised User Interface to Hotmail.com, you can simply log in using your Windows Live ID to http://www.outlook.com

You can check out a screenshot of the new User Interface below:

InfoPath 2013 gets a much needed refresh

For those of you familiar with InfoPath 2010 Designer, you probably knew how painful it was to work with an IDE that pretty much dated back to Visual Studio 2005, thus restricting all of the favorite features you have come to love with Visual Studio 2010.

Well, it appears that Microsoft got the formula correct this time, because this was the error message I received after clicking on the Code Editor (on the Developer tab) in InfoPath Designer 2013:

Well what do you know??  InfoPath 2013 utilizes the latest and greatest version of the IDE (looks like they have not re-dubbed it to Visual Studio 2012 yet....)

If you click on the link to download "Microsoft Visual Studio 11 for Applications", you arrive here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30364

This is an add-in/extension for Visual Studio 2012 that allows you to develop code for InfoPath 2013 Forms!  What a concept!

Thank you Microsoft for finally giving us an IDE for InfoPath development that is not 2 releases behind the current version!

Office 2013 Preview

The number of articles and postings on Office 2013 are exploding across the web.

Here are some articles on the new version of Office 2013 that offer some significant details and screenshots for thos interested in learning what is in store for them in the new, upcoming Office suite:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259260/microsoft_office_2013_preview_hands_on.html#tk.nl_dnx_h_crawl

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259300/microsoft_office_2013_a_tour_of_the_new_office_suites_user_interface.html#tk.nl_dnx_h_crawl

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259287/microsoft_word_2013_hands_on.html#tk.nl_dnx_h_crawl

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259290/microsoft_outlook_2013_hands_on.html#tk.nl_dnx_h_crawl

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259248/microsoft_unveils_office_2013_ready_for_tablets_web.html#tk.nl_dnx_h_crawl

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ragnarh/archive/2012/07/16/sharepoint-2013-links-downloads-and-resources.aspx