Wrapping up an app

[BeeJayEff]

I want to wrap up an Access 2013 desktop app so that the user only sees the splash screen. I can get rid of the Navigation pane, but not the Ribbon or the Quick Access toolbar. At this stage I do not want to split the db or prepare it for distribution. I don't really want to generate a custom ribbon, as I shall need the standard one for development.

I'm sure this used to be easy back when I last used Access (97), but cannot believe that I cannot find it anywhere in 2013.

Help please !

 

[Mr. B]

I hate to be the one to break the bad news to you but if you do not want the Access ribbon menu available to your users, you are going to have to create your own custom menu or menus. You do not have to assign your custom menus to the entire application. You can assign a custom menu to each form and you can do this at the last minute before deploying your application to your users.

 

[delikedi]

You could use

DoCmd.ShowToolbar "Ribbon", acToolbarNo

somewhere during initialization.

BTW, if your users have only the "runtime" version of access installed, you would have to distribute the accde version of your app anyway, and the ribbon would automatically disappear.

 

[BeeJayEff]

That all seems rather kludgy - I'm sure it used to be a lot more straightforward. So if you want to show users a prototype screen exactly as they would see it - but on your development machine - you pretty much have to go through the whole deployment process ?

 

[MarvinM]

For showing prototype screens, I use a screen capture app, like SnagIt. That way I can crop the image to just what I want them to see. Later on, I also use the screen images in the instructions that guide the users through my app.