Lost all the commands in File menu - Help

[Justice Gustine]

I would call myself an Access 2003 beginner - I use the software to
import canned Excel reports, run some queries to convert tech-speak to
normal-speak and calculate a few things, then export it to Excel for
others to see & use. I use the software once a week, mostly via some
macros and a switchboard I made. I fetch the spreadsheets and drop
them in a folder, click a couple times and what once took 4 hours in
Excel copy/paste now takes 4 minutes.

I wanted to take it another step further and learn to make it grab the
canned reports from the server and generate it's reports and a few
pivot tables, so I am going back to manually doing some things.

So I go to the File menu and there's nothing there but the last few
files. There is no New, Import, Export, Save, Save As, etc., I was
able to work around it by adding buttons to the toolbar so I can again
Import and Save As . . , so it looks like I am not banned from
importing or backing up a db before breaking it.

But I do wonder what happened and how to get them back . .

Thanks.

 

[boblarson]

Have you made sure that the toolbars aren't just set to display after a delay
(in otherwords, you might see a >> at the bottom of the toolbar that would
indicate you can click there to display the whole menu? To check right click
on the menu and select Customize and then go to OPTIONS and see if the
"ALWAYS SHOW FULL MENUS" is unchecked. If so, check it.

Second, you may have set some startup options wrong (you may have unchecked
the Allow Full Menus checkbox). To get to the startup options, close your
database and then reopen while holding the shift key down. You SHOULD be
able to then go to TOOLS > STARTUP and check.
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[Justice Gustine]

Have you made sure that the toolbars aren't just set to display after a delay
(in otherwords, you might see a >> at the bottom of the toolbar that would
indicate you can click there to display the whole menu? To check right click
on the menu and select Customize and then go to OPTIONS and see if the
"ALWAYS SHOW FULL MENUS" is unchecked. If so, check it.

Second, you may have set some startup options wrong (you may have unchecked
the Allow Full Menus checkbox). To get to the startup options, close your
database and then reopen while holding the shift key down. You SHOULD be
able to then go to TOOLS > STARTUP and check.

Still no "save as".

Show full menus is still checked - I never use personalized.

Full menus are in the startup too.

I do have another database - it does the same thing.

Another oddball behavior is either clicking or hovering over "View"
and "Insert" commands will 'grey out' the two commands - no menus
there at all..

I'm thinking that the .exe is corrupt. It is on a corporate laptop
that gets updates pushed to it whether you want them or not. I have
opened the database on another machine and it behaves fine.

Now I just need to bribe the IT person to reinstall Access and not
re-image the whole disk if I ask them to fix it..

Thanks