Menus in Access

[bifteki via AccessMonster.com]

Does anyone know if you can add a menu in an access form just like you can in
a VB form? I don't mean a menubar on the Access window, I mean a menu on the
form window.

 

[Alex Dybenko]

Sorry, this you can not do, perhaps with some 3rd party controls only

 

[Rick Brandt]

Does anyone know if you can add a menu in an access form just like you can in
a VB form? I don't mean a menubar on the Access window, I mean a menu on the
form window.

You can simulate it pretty closely by using buttons or labels that perform menu
actions. For a drop down menu you can use a button or label that displays a
shortcut menu when clicked. Since shortcut menus are displayed at the current
position of the mouse cursor it works very similar to a drop down menu.

Once you've displayed a shortcut menu that menu can contain as many branches of
sub-menus as you want so I often have a single button on the form labeled "Menu"
and have all other menu items in the shortcut menu that is displayed.

 

[Albert D.Kallal]

Does anyone know if you can add a menu in an access form just like you can
in
a VB form? I don't mean a menubar on the Access window, I mean a menu on
the
form window.

Since ms-access is part of office, then just like word, you get separate
widows, with out menu bar on each window. The same goes for Excel, an even
power point. So, ALL OF office has child windows..and NONE of them have a
menu bar. What this means is likely that your users will NOT be confused by
this issue, and infact the most power applications (word, excel,
PowerPoint) all have menu bar frozen at the top of the application, and NONE
in the child window. And, point in fact, the apple Mac also has this
interface.

So, no...you can't...but none of the major applications in office works
this way anyway.....

 

[bifteki via AccessMonster.com]

Thnx!
Thanx for informing me so I didn't have to find out myself.
Anyway I did what I wanted another way. And it does its job well enough so
it doesn't matter that I can't do it.