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I cannot see this feature in Access 2013...was it really discontinued?
A family of Microsoft relational database management systems designed for ease of use.
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Nicely put Algis. I couldn't agree more. There's a market and a huge opportunity that Microsoft is not seeing of and sooner or later someone else will.
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Unofficially, the answer is simple. It is a way of extracting more money from customers.
That actually makes no sense. Most people buy Access as a part of Office Pro. So they already have Excel. If anything this might decrease revenue as more people might skip Pro and go with Standard.