V. 5 of Helen Feddema's Custom Toolbar for Access
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NEWUTIL.MDA & NEWUTILV.MDA utility libaries are featured in 
"Customize Your Toolbars" by Helen Feddema in the May 93 issue 
of Smart Access


The NEWUTILS.MDA and NEWUTILV.MDA libraries are replacements 
for UTILITY.MDA, featuring new buttons for the Access toolbars 
(Print, Save and others).  Most are self-explanatory: the Save 
button features a disk; the printer button a printer; the 
object alignment diamond arrowheads show how an object would be 
moved to align with another.  The tool on the main database 
window with a small table and the letter A runs the Analyzer 
macro (which you will have to install first before you can use 
it -- see the file PSSKB.TXT that was placed in your ACCESS 
directory for more details).

NEWUTILS.MDA is designed for use with SuperVGA and higher 
resolution screens.  All toolbars except for the Form Design 
and Report Design toolbars are unaffected by screen resolution. 
The three form and report design alignment tools at the far 
right of the screen, however, will be unavailable at standard 
VGA resolution.  Note: all the toolbars are still usable at 
standard VGA resolution, you just can't see some of the tools.  
For toolbars designed for VGA, use NEWUTILV.MDA instead.

NEWUTILV.MDA replaces the Form & Report Design toolbars with 
versions that are visible in standard VGA res also.  I (Paul 
Litwin) made this new version.  I was able to do this by 
eliminating some of the dead space between certain tools to 
make room for one more icon.  Then, instead of using four 
regular size alignment icons, I made four tiny alignment 
buttons and arranged them in a diamond.  Helen Feddema figured 
out how to get arrowheads on the tiny buttons.  This object 
alignment diamond was so useful that we placed it on the SVGA 
toolbar as well, making room for three new tools on that 
toolbar.  

To use either toolbar, open your MSACCESS.INI file (in the 
Windows directory) in a text editor such as Notepad and replace 
the reference to UTILITY.MDA in the [Options] section with 
NEWUTILS.MDA (or NEWUTILV.MDA).  It's best to "comment out" the 
reference to UTILITY.MDA so that the new [Options] section 
looks like one of these two examples (the latter example 
assumes you are using the VGA version of the library):

[Options]
SystemDB=C:\ACCESS\SYSTEM.MDA
;UtilityDB=C:\ACCESS\UTILITY.MDA
UtilityDB=C:\ACCESS\NEWUTILS.MDA

-----or------

[Options]
SystemDB=C:\ACCESS\SYSTEM.MDA
;UtilityDB=C:\ACCESS\UTILITY.MDA
UtilityDB=C:\ACCESS\NEWUTILV.MDA

v. 4.0 Changes
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Fixed problem with Query Design Save

Placed buttons in the same positions on all toolbars (just one
exception:  Print button on Report toolbar)

Added Size to Fit button (Jim Ferguson, this is for you) to
Form and Report design toolbars

Added Windows API Utilities module (so these functions are
always available).


v. 5.0 Changes
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Made separate SVGA and VGA versions (Paul Litwin made the VGA 
modifications).

Removed Windows API Utilities module (as some users were having 
problems if they already were using this module)

Made zoom box font Fixedsys


VGA: replaced four object alignment tools with object alignment 
diamond.

SVGA: replaced four object alignment tools with object 
alignment diamond.

Added tools for Bring to Front, Send to Back, Size to Fit

Made procedure selection list box wider


Notes
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You cannot edit a library that is attached to Access.  Thus, if 
you wish to edit NEWUTILS.MDA or NEWUTILV.MDA after you have 
attached it, you must exit Access, and move the semicolon from 
the first "UtilityDB=" line to the second "UtilityDB=" line, 
and persist through a few error messages about duplicate 
procedure names when opening the library to edit.

Some users have reported problems with using these toolbars 
with the following video boards/resolutions:

XGA
VGA with Tseng 4000 chipset at 32,768 colors


--Helen Feddema & Paul Litwin