Form Design for Midgets

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Hi,

I must be a Mental Midget! I can do what seems like anything with ACCESS, but I can not seem to make my forms look right. What I mean is that when you open an ACCESS application it appears to be a Windows Form, Inside of a Windows Form. The ACCESS Program itself, then the mdb, or mde file I have created. How can I make that look like one form, using the ACCESS Programs Title Bar, and Max/Min Close buttons as my applications, instead of having those things twice.

Look I even have a hard time explaining this.

Please Help!!!!
 
Word, Excel, and yes..even ms-access follow what is called the MDI (Multiple
Document Interface).

So, when you use Excel, you get a window, and the application bar is at the
top. This is nothing new, and office has worked this way for about 10 years
now.

So, while you *can* with some tricks hide the main back screen, it is not
the best.

The best solution is to simply provide a nice slick and good looking
interface that COMPLETELY hides the ms-access interface. So, hiding and
keeping users out of the ms-access interface is a great idea, but this is
certainly a different concept then hiding the main background window.

For some tips, and ideas on using menu bars, and why producing a nice UI
helps, you can read the following:

http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn/Articles/UseAbility/UserFriendly.htm

If you look at the above, you can well see that a good looking UI can be
developed in ms-access (all those screen shots are access).

If you want to download a super simple example of the ms-access interface
hidden, then grab the 3rd example at:

http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn/msaccess/DownLoad.htm

Try running the above, and even try running the sample report. The above
example hides all of the ms-access interface..and it does not even requite
code to do this (you just use the options in the tools->startup). This
example should give you a "feel" as to what things run like with the
ms-access interface hidden.
 
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