According to the video, their preview was made before they received all the icons for the menu - hence the blank spaces.

Time for a video!!!!!!!

I plan on making several videos on this - when they're done and this is finally released to the public. Still in beta now, I believe. (I didn't watch the whole video, just skimmed it).

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Breaking Access News - Modern Chart Improvements - YouTube

TL;DR:
The Microsoft Access engineering team is enhancing Modern Chart capabilities, planning to introduce new chart types and improve user interaction, aiming to match Excel and PowerPoint standards.

Key Takeaways:
- Modern Chart improvements in Access include adding various new chart types like area charts, funnel charts, bubble charts, and word clouds.
- Upgrades focus on enhancing user customization, interactivity, and data visualization options.
- The development aims to bring Access on par with charting features in other Microsoft Office products like Excel and PowerPoint.
- The team is making the code more modular to implement new chart types more efficiently.
- Existing charts will continue to work alongside the new additions.
- Users appreciate the advanced charting features, likening them to PowerBI capabilities.
- Suggestions for further enhancements like candlestick charts and integration with PowerPoint presentations have been noted.

Q: Did they say when it would be released to the public?

A: The release of the Modern Chart improvements for Microsoft Access is planned for August and September. The team presented the current development status at the Access DevCon Vienna recently, indicating that the rollout is scheduled for that timeframe.

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Oh awesome, I've always hated access' graphs compared to what excel offers, hopefully this evens the field.

Indeed.

Word Cloud is currently only available in Access, we got something before Excel!

I would have loved having this back in the day when I manually created these.

It's now using the same framework the whole of Office uses so should produce similar outputs

Any news on whether the new charts will work on older versions of Access or will all users need to be on the latest version of Access to see the charts?

No chance they will work on older versions.