forms - Displaying an Access GUI without the default Access frame

Question

Is there a way to tell access to only display the forms/reports without displaying the access window itself (the "shell" window that the access forms populate inside of).

Answer 1

Actually, most of the posts here are rather old and based on much older versions of Access. Since 2007 you can hide the interface with just a few mouse clicks and ONE LINE of code. Under file-Options->current database

Choose tabbed documents, choose hide document tabs. Un-check show navigation pane and also if you want to display the status bar.

Then in your startup form on load place this one line of code:

DoCmd.ShowToolbar "Ribbon", acToolbarNo

The result is this:

So all these wild solutions with API, whacks of code etc. is not required unless one is looking to increase world poverty.

Just a few mouse clicks and one line of code to hide the Access UI been possible for the last 3 versions (2007 onwards).