Documenting Your Project 

If you document your work appropriately, your peers will be better able to pitch in and help when needed, and the quality assurance people will have a road map for doing their jobs. Unfortunately, most developers hate doing documentation, and Microsoft knows that. 

That's why there's the Documenter, a utility that scrutinizes some or all of the objects in your database and generates a report that contains all the technical details you always wanted to know about your project but were afraid to ask for. 

Here's how it works. Open a database and go to Tools | Analyze | Documenter. When you do, you can either select some or all of the objects under individual tabs, or you can go to the All Object Types tab to select every object defined in your project in one step. 

The Options button lets you adjust the degree of detail that you get in the Documenter's report. Make your selections and click OK, but don't be surprised if it takes a few moments to display the results-- especially if your database contains numerous tables, queries, reports, modules, and other objects. 

Once the report appears onscreen, you can open the File menu and choose Print if you want to keep a paper copy. If you want to save an electronic copy, go to File | Export. You can export the contents of the report to one of several popular formats, including HTML, Excel, and text.

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