10.1. Hacks 96100

Web technologies and the Internet are ingrained in so much of what we do that extending the Web to work with our database applications makes perfect sense. Although at first Access might not seem like a web-savvy product, with a few hacks Access can work well with the Web.

This chapter begins by showing how to save a report as HTML [Hack #96]. This lets you post your data to a web site. Better yet, how about bringing the Internet into your database? "Use a Browser Inside Access" [Hack #97] shows you how to use a web browser right within your Access forms. Need to get data from a web site? Just FTP it over [Hack #99].