StartupMenuBar Property

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You can use the StartupMenuBar property to specify a custom menu bar to use as the global menu bar for your application. For example, you can use the StartupMenuBar property to display a custom menu bar that doesn't contain the Security menu. This prevents a user from accessing any of the Security menu commands from the menu bar. You can also specify a menu bar macro that displays the custom menu bar you want to use as the global menu bar.

Setting

The StartupMenuBar property is a string expression that's the name of a custom menu bar or menu bar macro in the current database.

The easiest way to set this property is by using the Menu Bar option in the Startup dialog box, available by clicking Startup on the Tools menu. You can also set this property by using a macro or Visual Basic.

To set the StartupMenuBar property by using a macro or Visual Basic, you must first either set the property in the Startup dialog box once or or create the property in the following ways:

• In a Microsoft Access database (.mdb), you can add it by using the CreateProperty method and append it to the Properties collection of the Database object.
  
  
• In a Microsoft Access project (.adp), you can add it to the AccessObjectProperties collection of the CurrentProject object by using the Add method.

Remarks

If you are setting the StartupMenuBar property, you shouldn't use a SetValue action in the AutoExec macro to set the MenuBar property for the Application object. Since Microsoft Access runs the AutoExec macro after it parses the startup properties, the global menu bar set in the AutoExec macro would replace the menu bar set by the StartupMenuBar property.

You can also create custom menu bars by using the MenuBar property for forms and reports. These custom menu bars are displayed when a specific form or report opens and replace the global menu bar in those cases.

If the StartupMenuBar property is blank (which it is by default), Microsoft Access displays the built-in menu bar. If this property is set to the name of a custom menu bar, then the setting of the AllowFullMenus property has no effect (the built-in full menus are replaced by the global menu bar).

Setting this property has the same effect as setting the MenuBar property of the Application object (except the MenuBar property setting takes effect immediately).

If the Use Access Special Keys check box in the Startup dialog box is selected, or if the AllowSpecialKeys property is set to True (–1), users can still press CTRL+F11 to toggle between the global menu bar and the built-in menu bar.

This property's setting doesn't take effect until the next time the application database opens.