Menu bar disappears.

[Guest]

I have a client that has lost the custom menu bar in the application I have
wrtten for her. It shows up when she first starts the application and then
disappears. all other machines have the menu bar. She thinks she may have
punched some key that made it disappear. The application is a .mde. Does
anybody have a clue as to what keys she may have hit and how to get it back.
Thanks

Tom

 

[Rick Brandt]

I have a client that has lost the custom menu bar in the application
I have wrtten for her. It shows up when she first starts the
application and then disappears. all other machines have the menu
bar. She thinks she may have punched some key that made it
disappear. The application is a .mde. Does anybody have a clue as
to what keys she may have hit and how to get it back. Thanks

Tom

She might have accidentally undocked it. The main application menu is not
allowed to "float". If it becomes undocked then the next time the app is
opened it will vanish.

The information about where toolbars and menus are positioned, and whether
they are docked or undocked is stored in the user registry. That means that
even if you replace her application fiel with a new coipy the problem will
still be there. You need to delete the registry entries which will put the
menu bar back into its default location. In your design you need to make
sure that the menu bar is set to disallow being hidden or moved or undocked
to avoid the same scenario in the future. The registry area that needs to
be reset is found at...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Access\Settings\CommandBars

The "11.0" will vary depending on the version of Access you have.

One of the keys values should have the name of your menu bar. Just delete
that key.