What’s new in Access 2021
You can create and share a database quickly with Access 2021. It is simple to build and organize your data since Access takes care of the rest using the information you provide. Your data is placed into the desired format through reports and queries, ensuring that your apps continually appear fantastic.
The features you’re familiar with will still be available if you upgrade from Access 2019 to Access 2021, but you’ll also notice a few new ones.
With the purchase of Access 2021, you receive the current version of this complete Office program, which has, in addition to the usual features, numerous improvements in detail as well as completely new functions.
Add tables with fewer clicks
Use the Add Tables task pane, which stays open while you work, to add tables to relationships and queries.
Keep tabs on your database objects
You can clearly see the active tab, easily drag tabs to rearrange them, and close database objects with just one click.
Refresh, relink, or remove linked tables
The updated Linked Table Manager is a central location for viewing and managing all data sources and linked tables in an Access database. From time to time, you may need to refresh, relink, find, edit, or delete linked tables. This is because of changes to the data source location, table name, or table schema.
The Date/Time Extended data type has better precision
We’ve implemented the DateTime2 data type into Access to enhance syntax compatibility with SQL to increase accuracy and level of detail in records that include dates and times. The DateTime2 data type includes a larger date range (0001-01-01 through 9999-12-31) with higher-specified time precision (nanoseconds, rather than seconds).
Dark theme support
The dark gray and black themes are perfect for those who prefer a softer take on high-contrast visuals.
Improvements to SQL View
Use the Find and Replace dialog box in SQL View to search for and replace text in an SQL statement, which is especially useful for long statements.
Improvements to the Query Designer
We’ve added new time-saving options for table objects. In Query Design View, right-click to select Open, Design View, or Size to Fit.
Improvements to the Relationships Window
Quickly adjust the table size to reveal additional fields and relationships, select a subset of tables and relationships, and scroll horizontally and vertically by using the mouse scroll wheel.
Pick the perfect color
Based on your feedback, we’ve added a new input field in the Colors dialog for Hex color values. No need to spend time converting Hex color values into RGB values.
For any property where you can define a color in Access, you can now enter a Hex color value in the Hex box, for example, #0F4C81 or 444.
System Requirements for Access 2021
Access 2021 is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Some hardware requirements may therefore differ from each other.
- Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2019, or Windows Server 2022
- Processor: min. 1.6 GHz or faster
- RAM: min. 4 GB of RAM
- Hard disk: min. 4 GB of available space
- Graphics: min. 1280 x 768, DirectX 9 or higher with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10
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