Development Software

Access ELF
Access ELF understands your plain-English questions and translates them in seconds into SQL, the native Access language. Just type your query, press a button, and see the answer flash instantly on screen. You select whether to show the result as a datasheet, a form or a graph.

Adrenaline Charts
Adrenaline Charts 1.0 allows you to easily create media-rich, true 3D charts with your spreadsheet data.

Baarns Developer Jump Start for Excel
The BDJS is a subset of the methodology used by Baarns Consulting to create custom VBA solutions for major corporations. There are two flavors being developed, Standard Edition and Profession Edition. Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available for download from our Web site.

Baarns Developer Jump Start for Excel 97
The BDJS is a subset of the methodology used by Baarns Consulting to create custom VBA solutions for major corporations. We are in the process of upgrading our methodology to Excel 97 VBA.

Baarns Developer Jump Start Wizard for Access
The Baarns Developer Jump Start is an Add-in Library which functions as a wizard. It is designed to walk the user through the process of splitting an existing database and then building the foundation for the development phase.

Baarns Password Function
The GetPassword function available in the downloadable workbook below returns the text a user types into an edit box while displaying asterisks for each character. Excel 7 has built-in password support but Excel 5 requires a workaround to simulate a password edit box. The included function calls the same dialog box but configures it for the appropriate version. We have designed this so that the user experience is as similar as possible in both versions.

Baarns Security Reports
There are two (2) security reports contained within SECRPT20.MDB, "Security Report - Group" and "Security Report - User". The reports function by using code to loop through all the Data Access Objects (DAO) to determine exactly which user or group has what specific permissions to every object in the database.

Baarns Query Wizard
The Query Wizard allows the user to create complex queries without using Access's native query design grid. It allows the user to create joins against multiple tables and add criteria where clauses.

Business Forms Library
If you use Microsoft Access for business, you should check out this collection of over 35 professionally-designed forms. Complete with manual, instructions, macros, and source code, this is a fabulous way to get started on your Access application. Why re-invent the wheel when it's already been designed for you to drop-it-in and make-it-happen!

Button Designer Pro
Here it is... The Ultimate Button Editor, Designer, Conversion and Capture utility for Microsoft Office Developers.

Crystal Reports Professional 5.0
Crystal Reports 5.0 Professional is the world leading client/server writer that lets you design unlimited types of presentation quality reports and integrate them into database applications. Report from all popular PC, SQL, and ODBC databases and distribute reports through popular communication infrastructures including the Internet, cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail, Microsoft Exchange and more. Use Crystal Reports to publish reports to the Web!

Documentation Studio
Documentation Studio is an integrated suite of authoring tools and utilities that allow simultaneous creation of printed documents, Windows online Help, standard HTML pages and Microsoft HTML Help, all from a single source file. Documentation Studio gives technical writers and Help authors soup-to-nuts support.

EasyHelp/Web
EasyHelp/Web™ is designed for authors and programmers who want to make either Windows Help files or Internet Web pages quickly and easily from Word for Windows documents.

Excel Control Positioner
The Control Positioner allows you to automatically size and position controls on worksheets, dialogsheets or charts. In fact, it is not necessarily limited to controls, but will operate on any drawing object that has Top, Left, Width, or Height properties. The program also includes a nudger utility that allows you to move or size single controls or groups of controls in increments of 1 point.

Excel Dialog Converter for Excel 97
With the release of Excel 97, Excel VBA development has changed significantly. One of the most important changes is the addition of a true Forms package to the VBA language. In order to take advantage of this powerful new feature, however, you must convert all of your Excel 5/95 DialogSheets into Excel 97 UserForms.

Interface Components
Interface Components includes over 75 objects for Access Developers. Gauges, Sliders, Drag-N-Drop, Calendars, Universal Record Find Dialog, and more!

Madoni's Menu Machine
Introducing a new tool that makes creating menus easy and productive! Madoni's Menu Machine is a visual design tool that is used to create and produce a menu which is easily attached to any form.

Premium Solver for Microsoft Excel
The Premium Solver is an upwardly compatible extension of the standard Microsoft Excel Solver, with the capacity to solve much larger problems at speeds anywhere from three to 100 times faster than the standard Solver. If you've run up against the size limits of the standard Solver (200 decision variables) or found it too slow, or you need more power and features, upgrade to the Premium Solver today!

rptManager
RptManager is a complete reporting system developed in MS Access that allows users to organize reports in groups, modify report formats, and build powerful queries using plain English rather than SQL.

Setup Wizard
Setup is a Help system installation utility that automates the creation of install disks and CD-ROMs for standalone Help systems. Version facilitates the creation of 16-bit and 32-bit setups and includes built-in support for audio, video and Doc­To­Help's Help engine extensions.

SPEED Ferret
SPEED Ferret finds and replaces text strings in all properties of tables, queries, forms, reports, macros, modules, relationships, and import/export specs.

SQLPro Agent
BeaconWare SQLPro is the fastest and most cost-effective way to connect Excel to databases. With SQLPro, Excel users become regular consumers of corporate data, routinely drawing on databases to do their work.

SQLPro Workbench
BeaconWare SQLPro Workbench provides data specialists with the optimum work environment for constructing queries in large database environments. It includes a high-performance data directory, a graphical query builder, flexible ties to meta-data repositories, a grid-style data viewer, and full integration with Microsoft Excel.

Template Master Toolkit for Microsoft Excel
A step-by-step guide to creating full-fledged templates using a floating toolbar. Use it to create company templates that have consistency, ease of use, access to on-line help as well as templates where you can store sample data.

Total Access Agent  
Total Access Agent can manage multiple databases across any network that supports Microsoft Access. Just launch the Agent from any workstation that can access the databases. Total Access Agent even handles secured databases and lets you assign the security workgroups, user name, and passwords necessary to perform the tasks you need.

Total Access Analyzer
The award winning Total Access Analyzer is the most popular Microsoft Access add-in! Retrieve detailed information on all your objects including extensive cross-reference information showing where everything is used. Total Access Analyzer also offers suggestions and detects a wide variety of errors in your database.

Total Access CodeTools
Total Access CodeTools is a set of 10 tools that take some of the tedium out of Access Basic coding. Whether you are working with inherited code or your own database, Total Access CodeTools can make your code more readable, consistent, maintainable, and reliable. This powerful set of tools can be used daily to simplify your work and create code that adheres to your coding standards.

Total Access Components
Total Access Components is specifically designed for Access 2.0, Access 95, and Access 97. Total Access Components provides controls that you can place on your forms and reports to enhance your application’s ease of use, appearance, and operation. Many controls allow you to provide new and enhanced display effects, while others allow you to use properties and methods to perform complex operations.

Total Access Detective
Total Access Detective is an object comparison wizard for Microsoft Access databases. Use it to automate object and database comparisons. This product is ideal for managing versions or databases in multi-developer environments.

Total Access Memo
Total Access Memo gives Access users and developers the ability to add formatted memo fields to their forms and reports. Enhance your applications by adding support for features such as fonts, point sizes, boldface, italics, underline, bullet points, paragraph alignment, and tab stops.

Total Access SourceBook
Total Access SourceBook contains over 400 ready-to-run, fully commented procedures with a sophisticated browser and query engine to quickly locate the code you want. Unlike application frameworks, Total Access SourceBook does not require you to rewrite or restructure your existing application-simply find the code you need and paste it in. Best of all, you can use the code in your applications royalty-free.

Total Access Speller
Total Access Speller is a spell checker for Microsoft Access databases. Spell check the data in your tables and on your forms. You can even spell check the labels, captions, validation text, and status bar text on your forms and reports.

Total Access Statistics
Total Access Statistics offers a wide range of statistical functions for Microsoft Access users and developers. Developed specifically for Microsoft Access, Total Access Statistics eliminates the need to export your data to other programs for statistical analysis.

True DBGrid Pro 5.0
True DBGrid Pro 5.0 is the Official Upgrade Grid to the DBGrid included with Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 and 5.0. True DBGrid Pro 5.0 uses the same data binding and ActiveX/OCX technologies as DBGrid, plus scores of time-saving, flexible data presentation and user interaction features.

User Interface Construction Kit
The User Interface Construction Kit for Microsoft Access is a set of 20 independent and exciting interfaces all ready to be used in your applications or custom solutions royalty free!

VBA Code Cleaner
During the process of creating VBA programs, a lot of "junk" builds up in your files. If these files aren't cleaned periodically you will start getting strange problems caused by this extra baggage. Cleaning a project involves saving all of it's modules out to text files, deleting the modules, adding new ones to replace them and then reimporting their code from the text files.

VBA Companion
VBA Companion from APEX Software Corporation is an object browser that provides an easy, yet powerful method of examining programmable objects accessible from OLE-aware applications such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access.

VBA Project Documentor
This program automatically documents the "vital statistics" of your VBA project. Statistics include a full module and procedure listing for the project, and a Summary Info page detailing sheet count and breakdown, number of Subs, Functions, DLL declarations and lines of code both for the entire project and by Module. Now includes module file size.

Web Tool
Baarns Publishing presents our Excel-to-Web utility. For Developers and those of you who want to know what's under-the-hood with our Excel-to-Web utility, we're offering a version with complete source code unlocked.

XY Chart Labeler
A very commonly requested Excel feature (especially by former Lotus 123 users) is the ability to add labels to XY chart data points. The XY Chart Labeler now provides this feature for Excel users. Once the data labels are applied using the Add Labels utility, the Move Labels utility can be used to move the labels in any direction in 1 point increments. The Manual Labeler allows you to apply labels to individual data points within your chart.