I have an Access 2000 application that a client wants updated to Office 365. The old db has a toolbar that I’d like to use but it appears under “Add-Ins” on the main ribbon. The toolbar works just fine but it’s very awkward and unprofessional to have the user select it from the add-Ins menu. How do it make visible when the db is opened?
Is this still a mdb, or was it converted to accDB (or accDE)?
How big/extensive is the add-in menu? (extensive, or just a few options???).
If just a few options, then you could create a custom ribbon.
A HUGE but BEYOND huge tip? - don't use ribbon call backs. I can expand on this suggestion. But as a general rule the SAME command for the menu can be created and used for the ribbon - and without a call back.
So, right now, about your only option would be to:
Use an access 2000, or 2003 runtime (if you have a copy).
Or consider building a custom ribbon. I mean, a2000? That is 22 years ago.
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Does the Microsoft Access 2007 Navigation Pane have a simple .Sort property that can be accessed by VBA..?
I would like to add some AutoExec code to a database which explicitly sets the NavPane to sort by name each time a user opens it.
I understand changing the NavPane system tables is a big can of worms, but I was wondering if something as simple as the sorting could be changed through an object property somewhere.
MS has an alternative approach which could basically be described as "roll your own replacement navigation page". Links to their information are on https://support.office.com/en-us/article/customize-the-navigation-pane-ccfb0ee7-d72f-4923-b4fb-ed6c15484244. I have not yet tried to follow their instructions, so I cannot report on how easy, difficult or effective this is.
I made a database with access, and I created dataentryform and inside it there are some subforms (I have related tables), I used query to provive these subform and without these qaueries I cannot enter data into subforms (if I delete these queries then when I open main form I see blank rectangular inside myform instead of them.
enter image description hereIs there any possible way to lock query and also subform in navigation pane?
In general, as long as the user is running an application on his own PC, you cannot prevent him from deliberately modifying/breaking it. This is true for all applications, not only MS-Access-based ones.
That said, there are some ways to make it harder to accidentally modify it:
The recommended way is to start Access in "runtime mode", either by specifying the /runtime flag on the command line or by renaming your accdb/accde to accdr. That way, the user won't have a navigation pane and can only interact with the application through the ways that you, as the developer, explicitly provide.
You can use user-level security to "lock" your queries. However, user-level security was deprecated with Access 2007. It can only be used with the old, legacy mdb format (rather than the new accdb format) and should not be used for new projects.
I'm a small business owner and I'm very new to Access/VBA programming and in trying to protect my Access 2007 database I created a ribbon that restricts users permissions to forms, reports, etc.
Although I gave myself what I thought were the right permissions (as the Admin user in the Admins group) now, when I log into access, the ribbon I created (or some other setting I must have changed) does not allow the "Access Options" button to be displayed when I click the round Office Button so now I'm unable to continue work on designing the forms, queries, reports, etc.
How can I override the ribbon selected before the database actually opens, after entering my login information? or just please explain how can I get the "Access Options" button to display again?
Getting desperate over here, I've watched all the videos I found and read postings to no avail... Help!
Hold Shift when starting the application. It prevents loading forms, ribbons and autoexec macros. Google for "bypass key".
I'd recommend to create at least two ribbon menus: one for development, with system groups and full backstage (File) menu and production, without.
In Access 2003, I used to be able to right-click on a table and create a new query in Design View with that table already added. It always saved me some clicking. In the newer versions of Access I have to use the Create tab on the ribbon and click the Query Design icon. Are there any other shortcuts to quickly creating a query that I am missing? Maybe a keyboard shortcut?
The Quick-access toolbar is handy but I have hundreds of databases, and setting that up for each one is mind-numbing. Thx
There is no known keyboard shortcut in newer versions of Access, nor is there a right-click shortcut. For inexplicable reasons, Microsoft seems to have removed them. You will have to use the ribbon, or you can add the Query Design function to the Quick Access Toolbar (the bar at the very top of Access which, by default, has the Save, Undo and Redo icons).
I did, however, discover that CTRL + G brings up the VBA screen, which I wasn't previously aware of. :o)
Please describe the exact steps required to use a compiled Access 2003 mdb with the Access 2007 runtime and retain my custom menus and toolbars so that they look the same as they did with the 2003 runtime. I've tried following the various incomplete instructions around the web, but I either end up with my menus/toolbars on the ribbon's ugly looking Add-ins tab, or they fail to appear altogether.
See Jeff Conrad's page How do I get my existing legacy menu bars and toolbars to work in Access 2007? Right now they all show up on the Add-Ins tab.
BTW the probably two best sites on converting to Access 2007 are http://allenbrowne.com/Access2007.html and http://accessjunkie.com/faq2007.aspx