All Menus & Toolbars missing in Access

[NinoScholz]

I started access today and all my icons and menus are gone from the interface. I am forced to right click on all my queries and tables to perform any action. All I have at the top of my window is the usual "Microsoft Access" caption. Absolutely nothing else. Other than that, Access is fully functional provided I can use the right click commands. Has anyone encountered this? Help!

-Nino

 

[FoFa]

Go into view, toolbars and re-enable them.
Typically.

 

[NinoScholz]

NO View

The problem is I have no menu at all (no File, Help, View, nothing), therefore I can't go to the view menu

 

[jeremypaule]

right click then go to customize and check 'menu bar'

 

[NinoScholz]

hmmm.. I wish I could printscreen here. I can't seem to get to any "customize" menu. The menus, as well as the border where the menus and toolbars normally reside are gone - so that space where I would right click to get to customize in any office products just is not there. The only thing I have is a blue border for access itself and the window that shows tables, queries, forms,etc.

 

[RuralGuy]

Is it the same issue if you open the db while holding down a <SHIFT> key?

 

[jeremypaule]

do alt+print screen then paste it into paint

 

[FoFa]

Open a different DB and see if it is the same.

 

[NinoScholz]

Thanks for all the suggestions - I tried holding down shift, I also tried restoring the menus programmatically in a module - nothing

 

[RuralGuy]

Maybe a repair install.

 

[FoFa]

What happens if you start Access with no DB?

 

[gemma-the-husky]

have you hidden your tool bars etc. at some point?

 

[NinoScholz]

What happens if you start Access with no DB?

Still no toolbars or menus - just the annoying "Getting started" explorer bar on the right

 

[NinoScholz]

have you hidden your tool bars etc. at some point?

It's possible - I was thinking maybe an errant keystroke or something since I use alot of shortcut keys. I just have no idea how to get it back

 

[FoFa]

I'm guessing reinstall, or install fix at this point.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

are you logging in vanilla, or via a work group?

can you get to a code window via a module? have you changed any dbs startup properties? - perhaps search for

.Properties to find any instances of this in your code anywhere

 

[PhilipM]

Lost menu bars

When access starts up, you say you have the 'getting started' bar .. right click on it, click 'database' and if necessary click on 'customise' then 'Toolbars' then check 'menu bar'.

 

[NinoScholz]

Thanks

The right click on the "getting started" bar was the ticket

 

[vangogh228]

OK... I hope someone sees this. I have a user with the same problem as above, but there is no "Menu Bar" entry on the list. So, when I tried to go in and create one called "Menu Bar", I got a message saying it already exists.

But, NO MENU BAR exists in Access, even with no db open... and, again, it is NOT on the list of available customizable toolbars.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

 

[wcbert]

vangogh228

I lost the menu toolbar and to get it back I did this.

I go to the Start Menu in Windows, Click Run and type msaccess /safe and the toolbar came back.

The better way is in VB Code, type this command in the the immediate window CommandBars(3).Enabled = true and that will bring back the menu tool bar in Access.

Bill
www.WilliamBert.com