deleting "Delete Record" option from Edit pull down menu on menu b

i have an a2k mdb file -- how would i do this?

anyone?

what's vexing about all this is that the help documentation contradicts what
i'm seeing: i.e., when i'm looking at the form in form view and click 'edit'
i see 'delete record' as a command 'option' as i call it; however, when i'm
in 'customize' view and select 'file' from the same menu bar, it's not there?
what's up with that?



"Ted" wrote:

i have an a2k mdb file -- how would i do this?

anyone?

"Ted" wrote in message

what's vexing about all this is that the help documentation
contradicts what i'm seeing: i.e., when i'm looking at the form in
form view and click 'edit' i see 'delete record' as a command
'option' as i call it; however, when i'm in 'customize' view and
select 'file' from the same menu bar, it's not there? what's up with
that?

"Ted" wrote:

i have an a2k mdb file -- how would i do this?

anyone?

By "customize view", do you mean Design View? There's no "Delete
Record" menu item then, because the form has no records until it's
opened in Form or Datasheet view.

What are you trying to achieve? If you don't want the user to be able
to delete records from the form, set the form's Allow Deletions property
to No (on the Data tab of the form's property sheet in design view). If
that property is set to No, the Delete Record menu item and the
corresponding toolbar button will be grayed out and inactive, as will
any other method the user might take to delete a record.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com

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by george, dirk that did it.

mucho thanks.

-ted


"Dirk Goldgar" wrote:

"Ted" wrote in message

what's vexing about all this is that the help documentation
contradicts what i'm seeing: i.e., when i'm looking at the form in
form view and click 'edit' i see 'delete record' as a command
'option' as i call it; however, when i'm in 'customize' view and
select 'file' from the same menu bar, it's not there? what's up with
that?

"Ted" wrote:

i have an a2k mdb file -- how would i do this?

anyone?

By "customize view", do you mean Design View? There's no "Delete
Record" menu item then, because the form has no records until it's
opened in Form or Datasheet view.

What are you trying to achieve? If you don't want the user to be able
to delete records from the form, set the form's Allow Deletions property
to No (on the Data tab of the form's property sheet in design view). If
that property is set to No, the Delete Record menu item and the
corresponding toolbar button will be grayed out and inactive, as will
any other method the user might take to delete a record.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com

(please reply to the newsgroup)