Desktop shortcut for secured database

[Mike Binger]

My desktop has several shortcuts for secured Access databases. The target
for one of them is: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE"
"N:\Common\ACCT\branch analysis.mdb" /wrkgrp"N:\COMMON\FED.MDW"

That is for Access 2000. I would like to use a universal notation for the
target and the Start In to run the Access whatever version is present.

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

Mike Binger <MikeB...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Can't be done as is. Having any command line parameters requires
that you put in the name of the executable as well. This is a Windows
requirement and has nothing to do with Access.

However you could use the free Auto FE Updater utility to do this
using the StartMethod=AutoSelect option.
http://www.granite.ab.ca/Access/autofe.htm
This will create the command line necessary to start any version of
Access along with the command line parameters.

Tony
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