HELP! Database view

[vX987]

Database view

This is a more of a Microsoft Product issue, in general.

I have no idea what I did and how this happened but I no longer can see the toolbar in Microsoft Access that contains: File, View, Edit, Tools, Format, Help, etc.. THE MENU BAR that is..
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This view has occurred for all databases I open up in Access. I must have set the view options to this.. but how I did that, I don't know and how to get it back, I don't know either. I was just adding an action to a field and then it disappeared?????

How can I get this MENU BAR back? I tried right clicking on at the top of the window ... pressed customize, and selected all of the toolbars but none of them is it. The only toolbars I'm getting are the ones to help design or fix forms, queries, reports, filtering, etc.

 

[boblarson]

Have you tried holding the SHIFT key down when opening the database? If that works, you should get your menu back and then you can to to TOOLS > STARTUP and change the property: ALLOW BUILT-IN TOOL BARS back to being checked.

 

[vX987]

Thank you so much for your suggestion!!!.... BUT I over-looked something in the customize toolbars window... and now I got it back. Weird how I didn't see this till I posted the thread. I have been trying to get it back for 20 min!

Well thank you again.

 

[boblarson]

Glad you got it back, regardless of how it happened. It's always frustrating when something like that occurs and you can't seem to find out how to restore it.

 

[vX987]

For some odd reason I'm experiencing this same problem again. It might have been because I was viewing some databases in the "Sample Databases" section of this website while having my own database opened as well??? I don't know.

*When I open my forms, I can no longer minimize them. I can't view the form design of my switchboard anymore.

The last time I was having this problem, I tried opening the database while holding down the SHIFT key and the menu bar DID appear again, however, performing this no longer works.

HELP? Suggestions?

Thank yoU!

 

[vX987]

For future references


1. Open Access.
2. Hit "ctrl G". This should open Visual Basic and the "Immediate" window
(it's at the bottom of the screen in VB for me).
3. In the Immediate window type "commandbars("menu bar").Enabled = true" and
hit enter.
4. Close Visual Basic. The menu bar should be back in Access.