I am having difficulty creating a shortcut that only opens the access form. I have successfully created one that opens the form, but the database loads behind it. I do not want users to see all this, because it might confuse them, plus they don't need access to this much information. Is there also a way to which to lock down the shortcut so that they can't modify it. I noticed if you right-click on it that there are lots of options to open it.