Creating Customized Menu Bars

[SueBwork]

Greetings.

I am pulling my hair out trying to create a customized menu bar. Eventually, I want to have a customized menu bar and tool bar for report and different customized menu bar and tool bar for forms. I created the tool bar for the report window. Then when I tried to create a new menu bar I could not remove menu selections without removing the same menu selections from the default Menu Bar.

I selected View->Toolbars->Customize...
Then I clicked on New (command button)
Then I named it (RptMenuBar)
Then I selected 'Built-In Menus' from the Commands Tab
Then I dragged the 'File' from the Command list into the new Menu Bar
Then I went to the new menu bar and dropped down the selections under File and started to left click and drag what I didn't in the NEW MENU BAR. However, it turns out when I did that the same selections were removed from the default Menu Bar.

I was ablel to restore the default Menu Bar. But I want to have a customized Menu Bar and be able to select that new Menu Bar and associate it with every Report that is in my Database.

Any ideas? If you have some good instructional references, please point me in that direction. Thanks.

SueB

 

[quest4]

Try reading Access Help, under menubars. It tells you how to create customized menbars and how to call them. Personally I disable most of that stuff and I use chkboxes, cmdButtons and the like to do the things I want the users to do. Users can be very mischiefious and create havock when given to many things to play with. That is just my two cents. hth.

 

[Exodus]

If you want this to be a pop up when the user right clicks

You will need to create a custome tool bar call it what ever you want and add what ever functions you want set the properties for the toolbar to pop up.

In the design of the form under other make sure the short cut menu is yes and then in the short cut menu bar put the name of your tool bar.

 

[SueBwork]

quest4 :

Thanks for the suggestion. Can you believe that the 'powers that be' here at work have disabled the online help facility for all Office products. They say that there is a security risk in going out to the internet. It's infuriating. I'll check Access Help when I get home (I have Access on my home PC).

Thanks.
SueB

 

[SueBwork]

Thanks for the suggestion, Exodus. I think I need to find out why when I create a new custom menu bar the default menu bar is altered, as well.

Thanks.
SueB

 

[quest4]

I have heard help called a lot of things in my day, but that is a first. Access help is on your hard-drive or CD-Rom. MS KnowledgeBase is on the net. Assess help is a less of a security risk that Access itself is. FYI 4U.

 

[Exodus]

You shouldn't need online help to do check the help files as long as they are installed on your computer.

 

[Exodus]

The reason it affects the default bar is beacuse that is what the default bar is a built in menu.

 

[Exodus]

Use the new menu option from the comands and you can put the functions you want in it.

 

[rahman.asad]

How to change Access 2002 Forms custom Menu Bar with Access 2010?

 

[shadow9449]

How to change Access 2002 Forms custom Menu Bar with Access 2010?

You can't.

SHADOW