Can't Break out of StartUp Form... HELP!!!

[KenGue]

OK... What I did was a serious mistake... Now I'm locked out of my Database. I made modifications to my Startup form and created a Switchboard. In the process I never closed the Startup Form (in modal mode). I can't break out of the form and the underlying Switchboard was only a test form with nothing but a single button on it which did nothing...

So as if not to make things worse I saved this configuration and am now sitting here looking for a way to get control back so that I can undo my stupid mistake. Access is completley locked that the only thing that is working ... is that single button to load the Switchboard. I can't get to it, to any access toolbars and I have only been able to exit by shutting down the app in XP.

I started looking at making the Startup form fail so that I could get back into Access using a hex editior on the .mdb (copy of course - only one mistake allowed!)

I need help because I'm at my wits end and have been working on this project non stop

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Try holding down the shift key while you're opening the database.

If that fails, create a new database, and import everything (except the
start form) into the new database.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(No private e-mails, please)

OK... What I did was a serious mistake... Now I'm locked out of my

Database. I made modifications to my Startup form and created a
Switchboard. In the process I never closed the Startup Form (in modal
mode). I can't break out of the form and the underlying Switchboard was
only a test form with nothing but a single button on it which did
nothing....

So as if not to make things worse I saved this configuration and am now

sitting here looking for a way to get control back so that I can undo my
stupid mistake. Access is completley locked that the only thing that is
working ... is that single button to load the Switchboard. I can't get to
it, to any access toolbars and I have only been able to exit by shutting
down the app in XP.

I started looking at making the Startup form fail so that I could get back

into Access using a hex editior on the .mdb (copy of course - only one
mistake allowed!)

 

[KenGue]

I managed to change the name of the Startup form using a Hex editor... Access failed and put me into VBA.. from there it was easy to fix my problem...

By the way I did try the SHIFT key .. no dice.

Thanks again for the reply.