End User Stage

[KevinMCB]

I am almost finished with my database, and I would like to know if there are any non super complicated ways to disable the Ribbon and the navigation pane. Obviously I can minimize both of them easily, but the end user can still click on home or create and start working in the Ribbon. Thanks for any help!

[NoellaG]

Hi,

here's a link with an example:

http://www.databasedev.co.uk/access2007ribbon.html


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[KevinMCB]

Thanks. Got the navigation panel taken care of and I hid the ribbon with XLS code.

The only other thing I would like to do is get the design view disabled. I know this can be done by splitting the database and keeping the front end as an .mde. However, I will only have one user for this database and I don't really see the point in splitting ( I have also never split a database so maybe I am just wary).

The only other way I have heard of to disable design view is saving the database in the ACCDE file format. I do not know anything about this format. How will it affect my database?