Changing the style of a form in access

L

Liz

I added my wrong email address earlier, so not sure if
someone tried to help, so here we go again.

Hello, I don't know if anyone can help me, but here is my
problem.

I am trying to make a form with using the look up wizard,
and how it shows the information that is entered in the
form. I am trying to make it, so that when you look up
the information in the form view, you can have one field
that has a look up menu with another look up menu attached
to it and have it slide out towards the right of the
screen, and I would like to be able to select the
information that I put in.
 
B

Brendan Reynolds

Never use a real e-mail address in a newsgroup post. That's a good way to
get your in-box swamped by junk mail.

I'm having considerable difficulty understanding your question. What you're
describing sounds like menus, but menus are customarily used to select
commands, as in your own example of the Windows Start menu, and I'm not at
all sure that selecting commands is what you want to do.

You can create customized menus in Access, although they are not attached to
the form in the same way as, for example, VB6 applications. To get started,
choose Customize from the Tools menu, make sure the Toolbars tab is
selected, and choose New. Make sure your new toolbar is still selected, and
choose Properties, and change the Type from Toolbar to Menu Bar. The
interface for creating and modifying custom toolbars and menus is not, in my
opinion, very intuitive. You'll likely need to spend some time with either
the help files or a good book.

If on the other hand what you want to do is not to select commands, but to
navigate through hierarchically related data, then possibly what you need is
a treeview control. If so, I can't advise further on that, but if you can
clarify the question perhaps someone else can help.

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Brendan Reynolds (MVP)
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G

Guest

You are exactly right. You understood my question just
fine, and it is menu's that he wanted me to use. I just
didn't know how to explain it. I would have to use VB6
and I said that to my boss, and he said oh yeah, ok then I
don't want you to waste your time on that, no need to go
there. I posted my work address which I never get emails
to so if I get junk it is more then getting nothing. lol
Thank you for your help, and advise, it is greatly
appreciated.....
 
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