Most Access Features are disabled when I open the .accdb file...

[MatthewGrace]

Hello, thank you for taking the time to consider my question!



I made an Access program years ago, and I seldom do any work with it these days. Somehow, I cannot recall how, I made it so when you double click on the .accdb file on your desktop to run this program, it loads up with very reduced options. Pressing F11 produces no windows. Pressing alt+F11 will not produce the code window. The only visible tabs at the top are FILE and HOME.

I vaguely remember doing this so other people using the program didn't accidentally open anything that wasn't in the forms themselves. I also remember there is a very very easy way to fix this but I cannot remember... I want to say I'm supposed to do some combination of holding keys while clicking on the accdb file itself and it will open as normal. I'm not even sure how to look up my question in Google so I came here to describe it.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Thank you for your thoughts.
Matt

[Welshgasman]

Try opening with the shift key pressed, and hope you did not code to prevent that. :-)

[Micron]

You might be referring to File>Options>Current Database>Ribbon and Toolbar Options
and maybe
Navigation Options

[MatthewGrace]

Holy Cow. I used the shift key and it worked. Funny, I tried that before posting... perhaps I just didn't press it long enough or something.

Thank you guys!

[Micron]

hope you did not code to prevent that

Actually, that is not really all that hard to overcome.