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The material below originally appeared in Alison Balter's book Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2007 Development and is reprinted here with the author's permission. There may be references to "Figures" or "Chapters" that are not reprintable and are not used on this page.
Use The Save As Dialog Bbox
The naming conventions for table names are similar to those for field names, except that the standard for table names is that they should begin with the tag tbl. Chapter 1, "Access as a Development Tool," and Appendix A, "Naming Conventions," (available for download at www.samspublishing.com) cover the details of naming conventions.
Field names can be up to 64 characters long. For practical reasons, you should try to limit them to 10–15 characters—enough to describe the field without making the name difficult to type.
Field names can include any combination of letters, numbers, spaces, and other characters, excluding periods, exclamation points, accents, and brackets. I recommend that you stick to letters. Spaces in field names can be inconvenient when you're building queries, modules, and other database objects. Don't be concerned that your users will see the field names without the spaces. The Caption property of a field, discussed later in this chapter, allows you to designate the text that Access displays for your users.
Field names cannot begin with leading spaces. As mentioned, field names shouldn't contain spaces, so this convention shouldn't be a problem. Field names also cannot include ASCII control characters (ASCII values 0 through 31).
Try not to duplicate property names, keywords, function names, or the names of other Access objects when naming your fields. Although your code might work in some circumstances, you'll get unpredictable results in others.
Moving To A Client & Server Platform
To make a potential move to the client/server platform as painless as possible, you should be aware that not all field types are supported by every back-end database. Furthermore, most back-end databases impose stricter limits than Access does on the length of field names and the characters that are valid in field names. To reduce the number of problems you'll encounter if you migrate your tables to a back-end database server, you should consider these issues when you're naming the fields in your Access tables.
Adding descriptions to your table, query, form, report, macro, and module objects goes a long way toward making your application self-documenting. This information helps you, or anyone who modifies your application, to perform any required maintenance on the application's objects. Chapter 29, "Documenting Your Application," covers the details of documenting your application.
Tip About Field Names
It is important to be aware how the field names you select affect the potential for upsizing your tables to a client/server database. Database servers often have much more stringent rules than Access does regarding the naming of fields. For example, most back ends do not allow spaces in field names. Furthermore, most back ends limit the length of object names to 30 characters or fewer. If you create Access field names that cannot be upsized and later need to move your data to a back-end database server, you will increase the amount of work involved in the upsizing process. The reason is that you must modify any queries, forms, reports, macros, and modules that use the invalid field names to reference the new field names when you move your tables to a back-end database server.
Author Attribution
The precediing information originally appeared in Alison Balter's book Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2007 Development and is reprinted here with the author's permission.
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At MS Access Solutions, we provide professional Microsoft Access development services for small businesses, enterprise teams, and government clients. We've spent decades building fast, functional, and reliable Access databases, and we've seen it all, from simple form fixes to complete Access + SQL Server solutions. The following are just some of the programming services we provide to ensure that you will have a quality database.- Custom Form Development: We build clean, efficient Access forms that actually make sense for your workflow. No clutter. No confusion. Just well-organized layouts that speed up data entry and reduce user error. Whether you're starting from scratch or replacing outdated forms, we design Access UI that's fast, responsive, and integrated with your business logic.
- Reports and Dashboards: We design reports that do more than just show data. Our reports summarize key information, apply filters, group totals, and help you make informed decisions quickly. If you need a sales dashboard, inventory tracker, or project summary, we'll make it look sharp and load fast. We also design reports ready for print, PDF, or email distribution.
- VBA Automation: Repetitive tasks waste time. We use Access VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) to automate everything from data entry to validation, calculations, navigation, and more. If you're doing something manually over and over, clicking the same buttons, running the same queries — we can write code to do it for you instantly.
- SQL Server Integration: When your database needs to scale or support multiple users reliably, we link Access to SQL Server. This hybrid approach keeps the familiar Access front-end but upgrades the back-end to handle more data, better security, and faster performance. We set up linked tables, optimize queries, and make sure everything works without breaking your existing workflows.
- Database Repair & Optimization: Access databases slow down or break when they aren't maintained. We fix corrupted files, restore broken forms or queries, remove bloat, and rework relationships that cause issues. We also help clients split front-end and back-end files and build user-level Access controls.
- Legacy Access Upgrades: Still running Access 2003 or 2010? We migrate your database to the latest version, keeping your structure, data, and functionality intact. We modernize your interface, replace deprecated functions, and make sure it works with current versions of Windows and Office.
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