Title Bar w/ Maximized Screen

[Guest]

Is there a way to have a maximized screen with the form title bar visible? I
am trying to use the What's This Button" for application help but that only
appears on a title bar of a form that is not maximized.

 

[Bruce M. Thompson]

Is there a way to have a maximized screen with the form title bar visible? I

am trying to use the What's This Button" for application help but that only
appears on a title bar of a form that is not maximized.

You can, instead, open the form in a non-maximized state to fill the available
MDI area to retain that functionality. See the following MS Knowledgebase
article for information on this approach:

ACC2000: Maximized Form Shows Control Box and Minimize, Maximize, and Restore
Buttons
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=210299

This technique *should* work equally well in versions of Access later than that
specified in the article's title.

 

[Jeff Conrad]

Hi Rick,

Well I did some testing and you are correct that
a maximized form will not display the What's This
Button.

The work around is to instead of using a DoCmd.Maxmize
statement, use the code found here:

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0022.htm

I use this code all the time and it works great.
Using the above code will display the What's This
Button and the form will fill the entire screen area
below the menu bars and toolbars. Looks good.

BTW, I found something rather annoying.
And this nothing to do with the above code.
If you click the What's This button and then
press the form's Close (X) button, the question
mark on your mouse follows you around for a
while until you click on something it understands!!
Quite annoying.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, I will do exactly that.