Removing All Menus

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Is there any way to stop Access from loading the typical user interface, such
that only the main switchboard and associated forms are displayed? I already
know how to restrict menu options and displayed toolbars etc (from Startup
options). What about displaying them fullscreen? I know you can set them to
resize to the current screen resolution, is this as good as it gets?

Thanks

Dave
 
You sound like you want "more" then the ability to hide the ms-access stuff,
and are trying to hide the "main" background window.

You should be aware that Word has a main menu bar, and the documents are
child windows. The same goes for Excel, and thus the same for ms-access.
(and, not to mention, the apple Mac works this way ALL the time). Hence, the
menu bar stays at the top..and the child window does not have a menu bar.
Since most of your users will have used word, or Excel, then little, or no
surprises will occur if you hide the ms-access interface (and presumably
that means building a custom menu bar which has the advantage of making your
application look even more windows like).

However, you *can* hide the background window with some kluge code, but then
you can't have any menu bars etc..and that is not really what you
want. Further, using this kluge has all kinds of other problems. You can
read about how to do this here, but I don't really recommend this at all.

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0019.htm

I think the best approach is to simply hide all of ms-access, and then
provide some menus. They look good, and don't surprise the users . Here is
some screen shots of ms-access with custom menus..and *WHY* you should use
them...(..and I think they look just fine)

http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal/Articles/UseAbility/UserFriendly.htm
 
David M C said:
Is there any way to stop Access from loading the typical user interface, such
that only the main switchboard and associated forms are displayed? I already
know how to restrict menu options and displayed toolbars etc (from Startup
options). What about displaying them fullscreen? I know you can set them to
resize to the current screen resolution, is this as good as it gets?

Thanks

Dave
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