Customizing Access

Customizing Menus and Toolbars

I like full menus to show all the time when I am working with the Office Suite. This is possibly the first thing that I customize right away.

I also sometimes add buttons to the tool bars for things that I do often so I don’t have to go to a menu all the time. An example is a macro that I program and assign to a print report button. I’ve done this often in Excel but not in Access yet. Good food for thought.

Something else, after reading this chapter, that I might do is to create several customized buttons and create a custom menu for common tasks that I use routinely or have programmed rather than adding many, many buttons. This might work for tasks that I perform on a fairly routine basis, but not enough for a button on a toolbar.

I also tend to like to keep my hands on the keyboard and not use the mouse when possible, therefore I like keystrokes and being able to assign ctrl-codes is nice as it can be part of my regular typing and I don’t have to remove a hand from the keyboard to operate the mouse.