I have been using Access 2013 (in Office 365) with Windows 8.1 for about a month and a half now. I was a little reluctant to switch from 2010 on Windows 7, but I figured I should try stay ahead of the curve, and I also heard it had much better functionality for touch screen devices which I imagine are only going to get more and more popular. I have noticed a few bugs so far that I was wondering if anyone else has seen or knows how to fix.
The worst one I have come across is that I keep getting an error message after I make even the most minor design changes (such as moving a control) saying that my object (the entire form or report) is in an unrecognizable database format and it can't be opened. It then tells me that I should re-import it from a backed up copy of the database as if all hope were lost for it. After that the object won't even open in 2010. These issues have all been forms or reports that I created on my old system and tried to modify in 2013. Luckily I keep a lot of backup files and I haven't lost a significant amount of work.
The second bug that I can think of right now is that when I open up a section in the navigation tab and try to scroll through the list, it keeps jumping up a bunch of records, but less and less each time. To get to the bottom of the list I need to scroll down and let it stop about 5 times which is incredibly annoying.
If anyone has any advice I would appreciate it. I still can't make up my mind whether I like 2013 or not. The blandness is a stark contrast to 2010 and in my opinion a poor UI. On the contrary I haven't really noticed many features that are great improvements. From what I've gathered Access 2010 was a very successful upgrade from all previous versions, but it was also the version I learned on so I don't know much about the previous releases.
The worst one I have come across is that I keep getting an error message after I make even the most minor design changes (such as moving a control) saying that my object (the entire form or report) is in an unrecognizable database format and it can't be opened. It then tells me that I should re-import it from a backed up copy of the database as if all hope were lost for it. After that the object won't even open in 2010. These issues have all been forms or reports that I created on my old system and tried to modify in 2013. Luckily I keep a lot of backup files and I haven't lost a significant amount of work.
The second bug that I can think of right now is that when I open up a section in the navigation tab and try to scroll through the list, it keeps jumping up a bunch of records, but less and less each time. To get to the bottom of the list I need to scroll down and let it stop about 5 times which is incredibly annoying.
If anyone has any advice I would appreciate it. I still can't make up my mind whether I like 2013 or not. The blandness is a stark contrast to 2010 and in my opinion a poor UI. On the contrary I haven't really noticed many features that are great improvements. From what I've gathered Access 2010 was a very successful upgrade from all previous versions, but it was also the version I learned on so I don't know much about the previous releases.
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