Access & Excel
Access & Excel articles — insights, how-tos, and guides from YittBox.
September 13, 2026
How to Fix Data Entry Errors When Your Team Shares One Excel File
You know the feeling. You open the shared spreadsheet on Monday morning and something is off. A total doesn't add up. A customer's phone number is in the email…
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September 9, 2026
Why Your Access Database Works Fine Until It Doesn't: When to Rebuild vs Migrate
For years, your Access database just worked. Someone on your team built it, everyone learned its quirks, and it quietly ran a big part of your business. Then on…
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September 6, 2026
How to Stop Formula Errors and Bad Data When Everyone Edits the Same Excel File
You know the moment. You open the shared spreadsheet on Monday morning, and half the totals are showing #REF! , a column that used to add up now doesn't, and so…
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September 2, 2026
How to Know When Your Access Database Is Too Big for One Person to Manage
There's a moment a lot of small-business owners recognize: one person built the Access database years ago, it runs a surprising amount of the business, and now…
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July 22, 2026
ETL and Data Migration Out of Access: Moving Your Data Cleanly
Whatever you're migrating an Access database to — SQL Server, Azure SQL, Dataverse, or a custom web app's database — the data itself has to move safely across,…
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July 10, 2026
Database Normalization for Access Users: A Practical Guide
"Normalization" sounds academic, but it's one of the most practically useful concepts for anyone who's built or inherited an Access database organically over ti…
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July 4, 2026
Access + ODBC and Linked Tables: Connecting to a Real Server Database
A common first step out of Access's file-size and concurrency limits is keeping Access as the front-end while moving the actual data to a real server database l…
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July 2, 2026
Access Front-End vs. Back-End: What Each Actually Holds
Once a database is split (see our companion guide on splitting), it's worth being precise about what belongs in each half — getting this wrong is the most commo…
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June 30, 2026
Is Microsoft Access Being Discontinued? What It Means for Your Business
Short answer: no. But if your business now depends on an Access database, the more useful question is whether Access is still the right home for it. Is Microsof…
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