First Published 29 Oct 2026

I was very pleased to have been invited to lead a presentation at the UK Access User Group (UKAUG) Autumn Conference in London on Wed 4 Nov 2026.

My presentation is called Sprinkle a little UI Magic on your apps

My session will be a whistle-stop tour through a wide ranging series of tips and tricks to enhance the appearance and functionality of your forms in Access.

A slightly modified version of this presentation will also be given to the online Access Europe User Group (AEU) session on Wed 11 Nov 2026.

Some features are items I have covered previously and may be familiar to experienced developers. However, several are brand new and have never before been discussed in any Access user group event. It is expected that almost everyone attending will have learned several new tips and tricks they will want to include in their own Access applications.

All the items covered have related articles elsewhere on this website, together with free example apps containing all required code.
In most cases, you will be able to include the additional functionality in your own apps with only small changes to your own code.

Click to download a PDF of the presentation with links to all related articles: UKAUG_Nov2026_UI_Magic     PDF (approx 0.7 MB)

Many of the individual items also have accompanying videos on YouTube with additional explanations of the code involved. More videos to follow in the near future.


Click the links to go the related web pages.   Click any image to view the accompanying video.



Topics expected to be covered include:

      a)   Create Theme-Aware Forms

           


      b)   Personalised Popup Forms

           


      c)   Popup Form Positioning

           


      d)   Move and Resize Borderless Forms

           


      e)   Move Application Window and Popup Forms

           


      f)   Dock Forms to the Access Window

            Video to follow


      g)   Fluent UI Message Boxes with Timeout

           


      h)   Zoom & Reposition Message Boxes

            Video to follow


      i)   Zoom & Reposition Input Boxes

            Video to follow


      j)   Introducing Zoom++

           


      k)   Highlight Your Class

            Video to follow


      l)   Hide/restore/move/resize columns in Continuous Forms

           


      m)   Freeze columns in Continuous Forms

           


      n)   Paint Me Transparent     (selectively hide controls)

           




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Colin Riddington	Mendip Data Systems	Last Updated 29 Oct 2026

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