Hello Guys,
I need to know how to enable toolbars and edit a text in a report...
the database is locked by previous employee and I can't get to design view so I can change a text... There isn't any tool bar up there.. just EXIT button..

Thank you in advance.

Hold down SHIFT, double-click the file to open it, and keep SHIFT held down until the load is completed. You should load with full menus and toolbars. If the previous programmers disabled SHIFT access, then search around here (which you should've done in the first place). This one's been answered multiple times.

Hold down SHIFT, double-click the file to open it, and keep SHIFT held down until the load is completed. You should load with full menus and toolbars. If the previous programmers disabled SHIFT access, then search around here (which you should've done in the first place). This one's been answered multiple times.

Thank you Moniker for your reply...
I am a new blood in this forum... and I've searched around here about this issue but I couldn't find any... maybe I am not knowing how to search.
However I did try it with shift... but it is a login and password that I have to type before it opens. I do have user name and password.. but I can't enable any toolbars in it... It has just Exit button and PDF toolbar... nothing else. I don't really know how to get to design view...
I don't really know where to look in this forum... I am trying...

Does pressing F11 to open the DB window do anything, or is that disabled as well?

If not, can you start a new DB and just import all the objects into that new DB (File -> Get External Data -> Import)? Just start a new DB, import all the objects (Table, Queries, Forms, Reports, Macros, and Modules), and go from there. Since you have a name/password to get in, you should be good to go.

Does pressing F11 to open the DB window do anything, or is that disabled as well?

If not, can you start a new DB and just import all the objects into that new DB (File -> Get External Data -> Import)? Just start a new DB, import all the objects (Table, Queries, Forms, Reports, Macros, and Modules), and go from there. Since you have a name/password to get in, you should be good to go.

Thank you Moniker for your help...
F11 didn't work.. but I guess I have to create another one and see what I can do... I don't understand how could even F11 or Shift be disabled???
Maybe I don't know enough about it... but I think I have to start learning more about it.. even this is not my field... but I have to...
Thank you anyway....

F11 (pressed after loaded) will usually bring up the DB window.

Holding SHIFT (during load until it's done) will disable all the stuff that automatically runs when the DB starts, like disabling the menus.

Both of these can be disabled by the programmer as security devices. You can control pretty much the entire interface when you're the developer, but you're witnessing the potential downside of that.

Since you have a valid name/password to login to the DB, you should be able to grab all the objects out of it and into a new DB with no such restrictions on it as I previously described. That should be the solution to get to the design view, as you're essentially creating the exact same DB minus the paranoid security restrictions someone left you with.

I've created a new DB and imported everything... design view is working, but when I try to open them... the message appears "You Are Not Authorized To View The Database Object!".... does this mean that this has another password.. or something like that... when I log in.. I log in as Administrator... and I have correct password... there must be another way to edit them... how would creator edit them??
Sorry about all these questions... but I really need to make this work... Somehow.. :)
Thank you.