jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Jan 10 23:02:13 CST 2008
>It seems to me that you are directing your "disquiet" at the wrong thing. ROTFL. Which implies there are way more important things to direct my disquiet at? ;-) At least now I know that I can overcome this obstacle should I need to and apparently force my client to pay me a largish sum of money to learn how to do it as well. Cool! Forcing my client to pay me largish sums to get what they already had is a good thing! 8-) John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Schapel Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:22 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 John, It seems to me that you are directing your "disquiet" at the wrong thing. In earlier versions of Access, if you wanted the Menubar to "go away", the procedure is to create a custom menubar with no commands, and set that as the application Menu Bar under the Tools|Startup menu. Parallel to this, in Access 2007, if you want the the Ribbon to "go away", the procedure is to create a custom ribbon with no tabs, and set that as the application Ribbon under the Office|Access Options|Current Database menu. Is it as easy to create a custom Ribbon in Access 2007 as it is to create a custom Menubar in Access 2003? No. For one thing, you have to learn some new stuff. Do I like it? No. But it is simply not true to say that you don't have the option. Here is some relevant information: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb258192.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb187398.aspx In any case, a database that is created in an earlier version of Access, with startup options set to not show toolbars etc, will simply open in Access 2007 with no ribbon anyway. If you have custom menubars in applications that you developed in earlier version of Access, and then convert the database to Access 2007 format, your custom menubar will be converted to a group on a ribbon tab. Access provides some options for presenting this in a style more similar to the "old" menubar. Here is some information about this: http://accessjunkie.com/faq_31.aspx Once again, you would need to build this into a custom ribbon in order to get close to what you have now. Regards Steve jwcolby wrote: > Steve, > > So tell me how you permanently disable them so they never appear when > the application starts? I have menus built in to my applications. > Simple, one thin line at the top of the screen. How do I get the > ribbon bar to go away (never ever show) and the menu to appear? -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com