Hidden Toolbar

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Hi,

Sometime in the all too distant past, I did something clever and didn't
record how I did it or how to undo it. Within a specific application (not
all of Access), I've set a property such that when I click View\Toolbars,
there is only a blank square - not the Toolbar Menu that one would expect in
order to build or customize some toolbars. Can someone shed some light on
this?

Thanks
 
Hi, Ben.
Can someone shed some light on
this?
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Possibly. It depends upon whether you're referring to a "blank square" in
place of the menu items or a "blank square" on the built-in toolbar itself.
When the "Allow Built-in Toolbars Available" option is set to false and no
custom toolbars are created for the application, then the only menu item
available on the View -> Toolbars menu is "Customize..." However, when using
Access XP or Access 2003, I've seen several occasions where the
"Customize..." menu item wasn't available, but the other built-in toolbars
were listed, since on those particular occasions, these toolbars weren't
turned off. I imagine that had the toolbars been turned off, I could have
seen that blank square on the View -> Toolbars menu, too.

I don't have a list of when those occasions occur, but I seem to recall
opening an Access 2K MDE file in Access 2003, and not being able to customize
the toolbars. Probably "read-only" MDB files prevented customizing the
toolbars, too.

If the "blank square" is on the built-in toolbar itself and no other Access
application exhibits this behavior, then the "Allow Built-in Toolbars
Available" option has been set to false (either through the Startup menu or
through VBA code), and a custom toolbar has been created and enabled for the
application, but it currently has no toolbar items or else has no items
showing. By not "showing," I mean that a combination of text and image
assigned to the toolbar button doesn't provide a visible button on the
toolbar as one would expect (often due to being out of context, such as
Design View vs. Form View for a form).

HTH.

Gunny

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