Access & Excel
Access & Excel articles — insights, how-tos, and guides from YittBox.
October 14, 2026
Your Access Database Is Too Slow for Multiple Users: Here's How to Fix It
You built your business on an Access database, and for a long time it worked beautifully. But now two or three people are in it at once, and everything crawls.…
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October 11, 2026
Your Access Database Keeps Getting Corrupted With Too Many Users? Here's What to Do
You open your Access database on a busy morning, and instead of your customer list you get an error message about the file being in an "inconsistent state." Eve…
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October 7, 2026
Why Does Your Shared Access Database Keep Corrupting Between Locations?
If you run a small business with two or more locations sharing a single Access database, you've probably lived through the sinking feeling of a corruption error…
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October 4, 2026
Why Your Access Database Locks Up When Your Team Works Remotely (and What to Use Instead)
You added a team member who works from home, or maybe everyone went remote for a stretch. Suddenly the Access database that ran smoothly for years is a daily he…
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September 30, 2026
Will Your Access Database Survive a Staff Change? How to Find Out Before It's Too Late
There's a moment every small-business owner dreads: the person who "just knows how the database works" hands in their notice. Suddenly you realize that a big ch…
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September 27, 2026
Multiple People Editing One Access Database? Here's How to Avoid Corruption
You know the drill. Two people open the same Access database at once, someone saves, and suddenly a record vanishes or the whole file throws an error and won't…
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September 23, 2026
How to Fix Access Database File Locks When Your Team Works Remotely
You know the drill. Someone on your team tries to open a report, and they're greeted with a message that the file is locked, in use, or read-only. Meanwhile ano…
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September 20, 2026
Multiple People in One Access Database? Here's How to Stop the Locks and Corruption
You know the drill. Someone opens the shared Access database to update a customer record, and suddenly a coworker gets a message saying the file is locked. Or w…
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September 16, 2026
How to Audit Your Access Database Before You Rebuild or Migrate It
Your Access database has probably been running your business for years. It tracks your customers, your orders, maybe your inventory — and most days, it just wor…
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