Microsoft Access is the most efficient prototyping tool that anyone in the software development field could have ever used. However, if someone notices properly, then there are some serious downsides also.
Microsoft Access makes it cost effective and very simple to make a database application and then rolled the application to the desktop. But one of the major downsides to this database application is that it is extremely difficult to export the access report to another format. Many of the Microsoft Access developers who build these systems make use of third party applications in order to export the reports such as Microsoft Word or Crystal Reports. There is another downside of using the Microsoft Word. In Microsoft word you cannot export the OLE Objects. Actually, one has to use VBA Code in the Microsoft Word in order to call the OLE object via ADO. That is one technique by which a report can be exported. These days, with the 7 version of Adobe Acrobat Writer, one can have a better and effective method to export the reports.
It has been always a major downside to export the OLE Objects in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access. But if you work with the 7 version of Adobe Acrobat Writer, then you will find that this version installs itself in the all the major applications of Microsoft Office. This is the one of the best and fantastic step for the developers of the Microsoft Access because in this way one can develop the reports exclusively in Microsoft Access and then can print the report directly to the PDF Format. There is no need to firstly go in the Microsoft Word document and then converting the document into the Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
Another key advantage with the Adobe Acrobat version 7 is that if a user is using the OLE Object Data type in the Report, then that data type will be accepted by the Adobe PDF file. Most of the clients want to use the Microsoft Access for developing the reports that have photos. Then they have to distribute the reports using the Microsoft Word. But now the same process can be done in Adobe Acrobat 7 which allows creating a PDF file of the report with OLE Objects. Now there is no need to use extensive VBA code. This means, organizations that want to distribute the staff product descriptions or files can firstly make the report in Microsoft Access and the convert it into PDF Format via Adobe Acrobat Writer
