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How To Open Access in Full Screen

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How To Open Access In Full Screen:

Opening A Form As Maximized

Once users get a grip on form design techniques


in Microsoft Access database, they normally want to jump ahead and customize forms
in their applications that appear polished and professional. One technique they can use
is toopen Access in full screen view which hides other no essential screens keeping
your database neat and tidy.
It requires a combination of setting various form properties during the design time mode
and optionally (but ideally) applying either macros or VBA code to the form’s module
too.
The final touches to this process would be to create a desktop icon shortcut to load the
database file and run the assigned AutoExec macro to the application which will open
Access in full screen hiding non-essential components.
How To Open Access In Full Screen: Opening A Form As
Maximized
Create your form in design view and make sure you set the following properties to this
object:
From the ‘Format‘ tab, set Auto Center to ‘Yes’, Auto Resize to ‘Yes’, Border Style to
‘dialog’ and switch off Dividing Line, Control Box, Close Button, Min Max Buttons and
decide whether you want to include or exclude Record Selectors and Scroll Bars so
they can be customized when you open in full screen.
From the ‘Other ‘ tab, set both the Pop Up and Modal to ‘Yes’ in order for the loading
database form to take the focus and users cannot leave this view until they choose to
close the loading database form.
If you are going to switch off all the above, then make sure you add a way to close this
form by adding a command button to close the window due to having no control close
box option being visible otherwise you may find yourself locked in this view and not
making it very user friendly and intuitive to use.
The next part is to add some code whether it be a macro or some VBA code. When
youropen Access in full screen mode you ideally would like to maximize this view to
take the full screen and to do so you can add a simple one liner of VBA code to the ‘On
Load’ event to the database form:

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