Minimize Macro Action

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If Microsoft Office Access 2007 is configured to use overlapping windows instead of tabbed documents, you can use the Minimize action to reduce the active window to a small title bar at the bottom of the Access window.

** Note **  This action can't be applied to code windows in the Visual Basic Editor. For information about how to affect code windows, see the WindowState property topic.

Setting

The Minimize action doesn't have any arguments.

Remarks

You can use this action to remove a window from the screen while leaving the object open. You can also use this action to open an object without displaying its window. To display the object, use the SelectObject action with either the Maximize or Restore action. The Restore action restores a minimized window to its previous size.

The Minimize action has the same effect as clicking the Minimize button in the window's upper-right corner or clicking Minimize on the window's Control menu.

Tips

  • You may first need to use the SelectObject action if the window you want to minimize isn't the active window.
  • To hide the Navigation Pane, use the SelectObject action with the In Navigation Pane argument set to Yes and then use the Minimize action. The object you select in the SelectObject action can be any object in the database.
  • You can hide the active window by clicking Manage This Window on the View menu, and then clicking Hide. Instead of being reduced to an icon, the window becomes invisible. Use the Unhide command on the same menu to make the window reappear. You can use the RunCommand action to carry out either of these commands from a macro.
  • You can also use the SetValue action to set a form's Visible property to hide or show the form's window.

To run the Minimize action in a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) module, use the Minimize method of the DoCmd object.