DoCmd.ShowToolbar (Access)

The ShowToolbar method carries out the ShowToolbar action in Visual Basic.

You can use the ShowToolbar method to display or hide a custom toolbar. If you want to show a particular toolbar on just one form or report, you can set the OnActivate property of the form or report to the name of a macro that contains a ShowToolbar action to show the toolbar. You can then set the OnDeactivate property of the form or report to the name of a macro that contains a ShowToolbar action to hide the toolbar.

ShowToolbar (ToolbarName, Show)


Dim strToolbarName As String: strToolbarName = 
DoCmd.ShowToolbar ToolbarName:=strToolbarName

Arguments

The following argument is required

ToolbarName (String) - A string expression that's the valid name of a custom toolbar you've created. If you run Visual Basic code containing the ShowToolbar method in a library database, Microsoft Access looks for the toolbar with this name first in the library database, and then in the current database.

Optional arguments

The following argument is optional

Show (AcShowToolbar) - An AcShowToolbar constant that specifies whether to display or hide the toolbar and in which views to display or hide it. The default value is acToolbarYes.

Possible return values are acToolbarNo - Hide the toolbar, acToolbarWhereApprop - Display the toolbar while in the appropriate view, acToolbarYes - Display the toolbar.