Introduction.
If you have been working with Access 2003 Menus and Toolbars, you know how easy design tasks can be when everything is familiar and right where you expect it. Work moves smoothly—until one day you hear some exciting news: Microsoft Access 2007 has been released. You can’t wait to try out its new features. With all the experience you’ve gained in Access 2003, you feel ready to explore and learn even more.
Finally, the day arrives—you install Access 2007 and begin exploring the new interface.
But after a few days, discomfort sets in. The Menus and Toolbars you relied on are gone, replaced with something called the Ribbon. Suddenly, you’re not sure where to find the commands you once used instinctively. Design tasks that were quick and easy in Access 2003 now feel awkward and slow. You realize that creating Forms and Reports is not going to be as straightforward as before—at least not until you become familiar with the new layout.
At this point, you’re ready to accept any help you can get to get back on track. Microsoft anticipated this struggle, too—and they included something to ease the transition, as long as you already know your way around Access 2003.
AccessMaps.xls File.
There is an Excel workbook named accessmaps.xls that displays the Access 2003 and Access 2007 menus and toolbar options side by side. On the left, you will see the familiar Access 2003 menu options, and in the corresponding right column, you will find their equivalents in Access 2007. This makes it much easier to locate the new Ribbon commands based on your prior knowledge of Access 2003.
To get started, locate the accessmaps.xls file and save a copy in a place where you can easily access it—your desktop is a good option.
Do the following to get the file:
Click on the Access Help button (the circular button with a white question mark in the blue background at the right end of the Menu Bar). Microsoft Access Help window opens.
Click on the Getting Started option, under the Table of Contents, to open the sub-topics.
Find Reference: Locations of Access 2003 commands in Access 2007 and click on it to open the details page in the right window.
Click on the New locations of familiar commands hyperlink to send you to the bottom of the document, or use the vertical scroll bar to move to the bottom of the document.
Click on the Access Ribbon mapping workbook, and a File Download dialog box opens up asking whether you want to open or save the accessmaps.xls file.
You'd better save a copy to your Desktop so that whenever you want it, you can find it easily.
If you could not locate the AccessMaps.xls file through the above procedure, then download it from the following link:
Download AccessMaps.xls
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