How do I add extra items above the 8 limit in Access Switchboards

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I wish to add 2 additional buttons (items) on an Access Switchboard page by
increasing the limit 8 items to 10. Is there a solution please?
 
well, AFAIK, you can't change the preset limit in the Switchboard Manager.
if you want more than 8 buttons on a menu built by the Manager, you'll have
to add them to the form yourself, manually. then you need to edit the
Switchboard Items table and the code in the Switchboard form, again
manually, to support the extra buttons.

your other option is to build your own switchboard form, so you can
customize it to look and do as you wish.

hth
 
It is possible to add more buttons onto the inbuilt Switchboard Form. The
only problem is that to add items into the [Switchboard Items] Table for the
9th and 10th buttons, you cannot use the Switchboard Manager and you have to
add / edit the [Switchboard Items] Table directly.

If you are still interested in modifying the in-built Switchboard for 10
items (I did 12 in one of my old databases in A97 but I haven't used the
inbuilt Switchboard for databases since 1998), search Google for posts by
Jeff Conrad in these newsgroups. Jeff posted detailed instruction on how to
do this a number of times.
 
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