{"id":7369,"date":"2016-12-22T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7369"},"modified":"2016-12-22T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:32:36","slug":"disabling-ms-access-navigation-pane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7369","title":{"rendered":"Disabling MS ACCESS Navigation Pane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's been a while since I noted the security problem with displaying the Navigation Pane for all users. I looked for solution but it was hard to find, mostly complex codes\u00a0were suggested.<\/p>\n<p>But since there is kind of a need for it at work, I looked it up again and found that it's not that hard to disable\/hide the navigation pane. Including disabling the shortcut key to open the navigation pane - F11.<\/p>\n<p>Hiding the Navigation Pane - two ways.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/office\/en-US\/0a34dbec-5078-4e16-b6a7-78f62c39f1bf\/vba-navigation-pane?forum=accessdev\" target=\"_blank\">By code<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>DoCmd.NavigateTo \"acNavigationCategoryObjectType\"<br \/>\n<\/em><em>DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdWindowHide<\/em><\/li>\n<li>From option menu:<br \/>\nAccess Options -&gt; Current Database -&gt; Navigation -&gt; Display Navigation Pane -&gt; (Uncheck it)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The users have an alternative to open Navigation Pane with F11. So, the trick to <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/38093437\/disable-f11-key-in-ms-access-to-prevent-opening-the-navigation-pane\/39984283#39984283\" target=\"_blank\">disable <\/a>it is assigning F11 to something else, such as Beep action. To make it a global (otherwise the solution must be implemented in every forms, etc.) effect, it has to be done in macro, not VBA scripting. To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainbell.com\/tutorials\/ms-office\/Access_2003\/Assigning_A_Macro_To_A_Keystroke_Combination.htm\" target=\"_blank\">create such macro<\/a>, under Create Tab -&gt; Macro -&gt; macro name = {F11} -&gt; Action = beep. Save it as something like AutoKeys.<\/p>\n<p>Note: {} means function key. +{F11} means shift-F11, ^{F11} means cntrl-F11.<\/p>\n<p>This saved macro appears to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.experts-exchange.com\/questions\/27926096\/Access-2010-delete-or-edit-macro.html\" target=\"_blank\">only be accessible in the Navigation Pane<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's been a while since I noted the security problem with displaying the Navigation Pane for all users. I looked for solution but it was hard to find, mostly complex codes\u00a0were suggested. But since there is kind of a need &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7372,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions\/7372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}