Microsoft Office has just rolled out a fresh new look, with its suite of apps receiving a long-awaited facelift. As of yesterday, the familiar icons for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more have been refreshed, giving the productivity tools a modern, streamlined design.
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So, September 2025 has come and gone, the leaves are turning colors, pumpkin spice has taken over every coffee shop, and… the “Modernize Access Forms and Reports to work well on Large Format Monitors” feature? Nowhere to be found (to my knowledge nothing has been released, feel free to correct if I am wrong). Apparently, Access forms still believe it’s 1997 and that we’re all squinting at the same 19-inch monitor.
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If you wander over to Microsoft’s official MS365 blog these days, you’ll notice something. It’s not a magazine spread of all the familiar Microsoft 365 apps anymore. It’s not even a balanced showcase of Excel, Teams, Outlook, or PowerPoint. No- now the star of the show, the headline act, the single unrelenting topic is Copilot. It’s actually offensively so.
Every article, every flashy graphic, every bold font: Copilot. Copilot writes. Copilot summarizes. Copilot practically makes your coffee. Microsoft 365, the suite itself, only gets a quick name-drop like an older sibling being politely acknowledged before the younger, shinier one takes over the conversation.
And Access? Poor Access isn’t even at the table. You can at least find content on MS365, Excel, Word, Outlook, … but Access, no Access is nowhere to be found!
Access is like the cousin at the family reunion who wasn’t technically uninvited, but somehow no one remembered to tell them the time or place. Like Cinderella, doing all the work, but hidden away while others take the credit.
Microsoft Access users have yet again encountered a delay in anticipated feature rollout. The ‘Add zoom slider magnification‘ feature, which was initially scheduled for release in June 2025, then pushed to September 2025, has now been pushed back, yet again, now this time to October 2025 (March 2026 now and still no signs of life of this new feature and no updates from the Dev Team on the subject) according to the latest update on the official Microsoft 365 Roadmap.
This zoom slider will allow users to magnify forms, reports, and controls anywhere from 10% to 500%, offering a much-needed improvement to navigating complex Access databases on varying screen sizes and resolutions. It also promises keyboard accessibility and integration into the Ribbon interface, bringing Access in line with the zoom capabilities already familiar in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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Microsoft officially announced the phased deprecation of the VBScript library in October 2023, with a detailed timeline publicly shared in May 2024. VBScript has been a foundational technology in Windows scripting and VBA projects for decades. Its deprecation impacts key VBScript components such as VBScript.RegExp for regular expressions, Scripting.FileSystemObject (FSO) for file system operations, and Scripting.Dictionary collections, which many VBA developers currently rely on.
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If you’re using the new Monaco SQL Editor, you might have noticed an annoying issue at times: the SQL View option disappears, making it impossible to switch between design or results view and the SQL code or simply loads an empty text editor as if your SQL Statement had vanished into thin air. While the Monaco editor brings a sleeker interface with improved code editing features, it currently doesn’t always play well with SQL View depending on certain factors and types of queries.
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We may have another issue to watch out for this week. A couple of users have now reported that installing KB5064081 is causing their Access applications to crash, specifically when running code that uses ADO and/or DAO.
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Huston we have yet another problem!
We are seeing multiple reports that a recent update has broken, at the very least VBScript.RegExp, resulting in the following error:
I’ve been experimenting with AI lately to see how useful it really is for everyday tasks. So far, my verdict is VERY mixed, sometimes it’s genuinely helpful, other times not so much and you waste more time fighting with it than actually getting proper information.
But that’s not the main point here. Instead, I want to share a clear warning: never let children use AI tools unsupervised.
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With the unfortunate and unexpected shutdown of UtterAccess, we’ve lost a tremendous amount of knowledge, especially the invaluable samples housed in the Code Archive. Sadly, because downloads were moved behind authentication when Jack redesigned the site a few years ago, even the Wayback Machine can’t help us recover those gems.
That got me thinking: Is there a way we can rebuild at least some of what was lost?
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