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Before Access 2007, Microsoft Access was an MDI Container. For those who aren't developers, this means that each time you opened a DB object (i.e. Data Table, Query, Form) it appeared as a window within your application. You could Minimize, Maximize, Restore the windows as you needed, and they were all contained within the MS Access Application.

I started using Access 2010, for the first time about 6 months. I know that Access 2003 is long gone, but the change to a tab interface is something that is starting to drive me insane.

I have a HUGE monitor that I use to layout, analyze and reference a lot of data from different objects. Having to switch tabs, constantly, is highly-unproductive for me.

Is there any way, possibly by some deeply buried setting, that I can turn Access 2010 into an MDI container, much like older versions of Access?

RLH
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  • No, there is no feature like that. I've tried all of the obvious steps. In fact, I'm quite doubtful there is a solution to this problem, but I can't find where anyone has asked this before. Certainly there are other data-nerds out there that need to have their eyes jump back-and-forth between 3-5 sets of data in Access! – RLH May 28 '14 at 17:29

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I found it for 2007/10/13:

  • File tab (or the Orb if using 2007)
  • Options
  • Current Database
  • Under "Document Window Options" choose "Overlapping Windows" instead of "Tabbed Documents".

Access 2013 options window

Close and re-open the DB and you'll have MDI-style Windows.

Access 2013 in MDI-style mode

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