All Menus Hidden - How to Unhide???

[Jason]

I created a form and went into Tools->Startup so that the form would come up
automatically when the Access (2003) file is opened. Worked great. I hid the
toolbar and stuff - still worked great. Then I hid the menu and everything
else that had a checkbox option - bad idea! Now the limited menu that
appears with the startup form does not have an option to unhide anything.
How the heck do I get back the option to unhide stuff??? I can't get to my
underlying tables/queries/menus at all now.

 

[fredg]

I created a form and went into Tools->Startup so that the form would come up
automatically when the Access (2003) file is opened. Worked great. I hid the
toolbar and stuff - still worked great. Then I hid the menu and everything
else that had a checkbox option - bad idea! Now the limited menu that
appears with the startup form does not have an option to unhide anything.
How the heck do I get back the option to unhide stuff??? I can't get to my
underlying tables/queries/menus at all now.

Not wholly sure of what you have checked or where, but to show the
database folder at start up again, hold down the shift key as you open
the database, or press F11 while it's open.

If you can add code to the form that shows, you can change the Option
settings by code (look up the 'Set Options from Visual Basic' method
in VBA help), as well as hide or show individual toolbars (look up the
ShowToobar method in VBA Help).

If this doesn't help show what you need, post back.

 

[Jason]

THANK YOU!!! The Shift thing worked great (although the F11 didn't seem to
work).

 

[Joan Wild]

THANK YOU!!! The Shift thing worked great (although the F11 didn't
seem to work).

You probably unchecked 'allow special keys' in the startup dialog. That'll
disable f11.

 

[Adrian Tofan]

Keep Shift key pressed when you open the database.