To all Access developers – have you taken over a project started by someone else, and discovered the original was poorly designed? Did you want to start from the ground up, but the client refused not knowing that they would it would actually cost them more in the long run to just continually add updates?
I’m on such a project, the fourth developer since the thing began. There are dozens of tables, queries, reports, and macros. I’m currently in the process of analyzing one of the macros that contains a couple sub-macros each with several Openquery steps. The design view displays all these steps just fine, but I have to continueally bounce between this an the queries to track what they all do.
Is there a way to export these steps into an Excel file or some other document to make this process a little less cumbersome? I don’t want to export the actual macro, just all the steps that are listed. They are shown in a basic grid so it seems it shouldn’t be out of the question to do this. There is an Export function when I right-click the macro title, but only Access is available – Excel and the other options are greyed out.
Any ideas, or is there perhaps a better overall way to analyze a database such as this?