MS Access isn’t my primary area of knowledge. Therefor my question is probably not specific enough. Nevertheless.
We have a custom-built MS Access application we’d like to change slightly, for example add the year 2012 to a certain control.
As may MS Access app, this one hides the developer view of the database. Recently – while the app posted a error message during shutdown -, the developer view got exposed. Unfortunately, below to error dialog box, which by a click of OK terminated MS Access.
I assume, that there is a standard way to bring up the developer of such a database. Could someone povide hints?
Please don’t provide links pointing to cracking software. I’m solely interested in the standard / legal way.
As long as you are dealing with mdb/accdb, rather than mde/accde, it is possible that holding the shift key down while opening the database will enable the disabled menus. Keep the shift key held down until the database is fully opened. In some cases, the shift key override is disabled, but there are ways around this also.
Once the database is open, press alt+F11 to open the code window.
If the shift key bypass has been disabled, life gets a little more difficult, start by reading MS Access Start up Properties