Microsoft Access screen size

March 12, 2005 8:35 AM

How can I get Microsoft Access 2000 to default to full-screen mode when I open a second instance?

I often have to work in more than one Access database at once. When I open a shortcut to a second database, the rotten thing opens up at about half-screen size, and I must maximize it, and drag the initial form to the correct size. Nothing I've tried in the settings has worked. I'm fairly experienced with Access, and this is baffling and frustrating.

posted by frykitty to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Most Microsoft MDI applications behave like this. It has to do with the fact that they save the last main window position and size in the registry when you shut down the last running instance of the application. If the last window you shut is "half-size", as you put it, the next time you start the application, that's where it will begin. (I am speaking about the Access program itself: are you talking about a database application written in Access?) If it's an application written in Access, each form and window has VBA functions of the form object.Windowstate = [vbMinimized|vbMaximized|vbNormal] that can be set from VBA. Can you provide a little more information?
posted by pjern at 5:42 PM on March 12, 2005

Response by poster: I'm shutting them down from full screen, so that's not it.

Yes, I'm talking about database applications. Setting the form size doesn't help. It's the application itself that is opening half size, not just the forms, and I believe if the application would open full screen, I wouldn't have to bother resizing forms.

*tries something*

Hmm. I'm at home now, and they don't do it--so it's something to do with my work system. Which is doubly confusing, because I'm running the same WinXPpro/Access 2000 combo on both of them.
posted by frykitty at 6:47 PM on March 12, 2005

Best answer: I'm shutting them down from full screen, so that's not it.

Frequently applications will save the window size but not maximized state. So for some of them I just drag the window out to be almost full screen and it remembers that.

Not sure if that will work here.
posted by grouse at 3:26 AM on March 13, 2005

Response by poster: Grouse--that sort of worked. I also did the old Windows trick of holding CTRL when closing. While the windows still aren't opening full screen, they are big enough to work with.

Thanks!
posted by frykitty at 7:13 AM on March 14, 2005