How to show the Database objects in the Windows Task Bar

[accesser2003]

I have a problem. This problem is that I cant see the Database objects (Forms,Report,...) in the Windows task bar. I want the user to be able to see any opened form, or report directly in the task bar as any file opened by the Windows user.

I have tried to check on the (Show Windows in TaskBar) option available in the Tools -> options of the MS Access, but it doesn work with me.

What is happening now that I am forced to show the Menu Bar and use the Window menu to switch between the objects, however, This will not be OK for me because my system hides all the command bars the MS Acccess use.

Is the any way to solve this hard problem?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Search the forum for "task bar" as a topic. We have had a few threads on this subject. If I recall correctly, this cannot be done without some third-party product that allows you to dink with the task bar. See, part of your problem is that a report isn't a task window. (No? What is it? he says....) It is a sub-task window and so is normally subsumed by th parent task's task bar entry.

Experiment: Open a form, a report, and a table in Access. Now minimize that and open something else, like a Word document or an Internet page. Anything that ISN'T Access. Now click on the (single) Access task bar entry. What pops up? ALL of the things you had opened - because they are children of the task item you maximized or normalized. And it is Access that controls its children, not Windows. Access just asks Windows (big-w) to build new windows (little-w) for its children, but they are all associated with Access.

The issue is that normally, you do NOT have access (little-a) to the children of an Access (big-A) task as separate entities. It kind of depends on how the entity is opened internally to Windows, but apparently MS Office makes this distinction, too.

One way around it is to allow a person to click on the MDB more than once and have different things open in the two sessions. But this often tends to confuse the crud out of the newbies of the world. (Heck, remembering what goes with what confuses ME these days...) They BOTH will be called Access, which is where confusion reigns supreme.