how do you get past a switchboard in Access to view the Menu bar

We have a database that has a switchboard on it. The person who designed the
database hid all of the menus so people could not access the table, report,
and forms data or make any changes to the database. How do I get around this
so that I can get to the table and menus? We need to convert the database
from XP to 97 and the person who created the database is not available to
assist me, nor did he leave any notes.

Try holding down the Shift key while starting the database.

That's the first step of many that may be needed, depending on how secure
the developer made the database.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"Karen" wrote in message
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We have a database that has a switchboard on it. The person who designed
the
database hid all of the menus so people could not access the table,
report,
and forms data or make any changes to the database. How do I get around
this
so that I can get to the table and menus? We need to convert the database
from XP to 97 and the person who created the database is not available to
assist me, nor did he leave any notes.

For sure try the shift key, if that does not work, try creating a new mdb
then import the objects into it.
Still depends on how secure the developer made it.

"Allen Browne" wrote in message
...
Try holding down the Shift key while starting the database.

That's the first step of many that may be needed, depending on how secure
the developer made the database.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"Karen" wrote in message
...
We have a database that has a switchboard on it. The person who designed
the
database hid all of the menus so people could not access the table,
report,
and forms data or make any changes to the database. How do I get around
this
so that I can get to the table and menus? We need to convert the
database
from XP to 97 and the person who created the database is not available to
assist me, nor did he leave any notes.

"Karen" wrote in message
...
We have a database that has a switchboard on it. The person who
designed the
database hid all of the menus so people could not access the
table, report,
and forms data or make any changes to the database. How do I get
around this
so that I can get to the table and menus? We need to convert the
database
from XP to 97 and the person who created the database is not
available to
assist me, nor did he leave any notes.

Karen,

Does the name of your MS Access database file end in ".mdb" or
".mde"?


Sincerely,

Chris O.