Making Menus

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Is it possible to make menus on a form that has nothing to do with the toolbar? The menus would be meant for opening other forms or sub-menus. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
 
Certainly possible. It takes a bit of playing around, until you get the
hang of it, but its easy enough.

With the standard database window open, and your database loaded, right
click on the Access toolbar and select 'Customise'. You get a dialog box
with tabs Toolbars|Commands|Options across the top. Select Commands and
scroll down the left list to 'All Forms' Then all your forms names appear
in the right list. Drag the form name from the list box to the toolbar.
Right clicking on the name once you have it in the toolbar will bring up
another sub-menu where you can set a user friendly name, start a menu group
etc.

Once you close the Customise dialog box, clicking on the new menu item you
created will open the form.

I find this a much better interface than the switchboard.

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Adrian Jansen
J & K MicroSystems
Microcomputer solutions for industrial control
Rastaman said:
Is it possible to make menus on a form that has nothing to do with the
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toolbar? The menus would be meant for opening other forms or sub-menus. Any
help is appreciated. Thanks
 
You can specify what menu bar will be used with what form in the forms
"other" tab.

Just remember, that for about the last 10 years now, that office has used
the MIDI interface. that is what we call the multiple document interface.
That means that you have a menu bar across the top of the screen, and each
individual form in side uses that menu bar. So, each window in word, or in
Excel, or in ms-access do not have a menu placed on each form...but each
form can most certainly have a different menu. That menu is ALWAYS at the
top of the application. (this means the user does not have to hunt, or look
for a menu. The apple mac also works this way).

In addition to each form having a menu, you can create a custom menu for the
whole application. So, as a matter of the development process, you will
likely build a number of menu bars. One for the application..and then some
for forms that need a lot of options. Doing this can really clean up the
mess of buttons you typically see on the bottom of a ms-access form.

Here is some ideas as to why using menus in ms-access is a good idea:

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


And, here is tutorial on making menus:

http://www.microsoft.com/Accessdev/articles/bapp97/chapters/ba01_6.htm
 
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