What s Next?

What's Next ?

In the next chapter, we will look at how you can add custom menus and toolbars to your Access database to replace the rather powerful menus that are bundled with Access. This important phase in the development of your database indicates that you can start to remove the complexity from your application. Though developers are usually very entertained by the prospect of hundreds of features, giving end users more than a few options will serve only to confuse them and increase your training costs. Menus also provide added protection to objects and data in your database. Naturally, as soon as you put a menu in place, the developer and the database administrator are going to want to do something more powerful than your own menus and toolbars can provide. The menu chapter shows you how to get around this as well.