How do I make a Switchboard in Access 2003?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Tony
  • Start date Start date
T

Tony

My real question is: How can I get back my switchboard manager I had with
Access 97 in my present Access 2003.
 
Don't know where it was in '97 but in 2003 goto

Tools - Database Utilities - Switchboard Manager
My real question is: How can I get back my switchboard manager I had with
Access 97 in my present Access 2003.
Click to expand...

--
There's ALWAYS more than one way to skin a cat!

Answers/posts based on Access 2000/2003

Message posted via AccessMonster.com
 
Tony said:
My real question is: How can I get back my
switchboard manager I had with
Access 97 in my present Access 2003.
Click to expand...

My real question is: why would you want to do that?

The Switchboard Manager is a complex solution to a simple problem; it uses a
table, and unintuitive forms that are very prone to problems when you try to
modify them, even if you remember you have to do so with the Switchboard
Manager. If the number of questions here, and the answers to them, haven't
convinced you, let me 'splain: The simple, straightforward, maintainable,
and utterly flexible way to create and maintain switchboards is "unbound
forms with command buttons". You can recreate anything you can implement
with the Switchboard Manager using nothing but unbound Forms and the Command
Button Wizard. If you want to extend the functionality, you might use some
other types of Control and/or some VBA code.

That said, Access 2003 still comes with the Abominable Switchboardman if you
feel compelled to use it.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 
Well said, Larry!

--
There's ALWAYS more than one way to skin a cat!

Answers/posts based on Access 2000/2003

Message posted via AccessMonster.com
 
Oh, oh! You forgot; they're ugly, too!

--
There's ALWAYS more than one way to skin a cat!

Answers/posts based on Access 2000/2003

Message posted via AccessMonster.com
 
Back
Top