ACC2000: Default Editor for a Data Access Page Is the Browser

ID: Q198634

The information in this article applies to:
Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

This article applies to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb) and a Microsoft Access project (.adp).


SUMMARY

When you double-click the HTML file (.htm) that makes up a data access page, the browser opens. Even though you create a data access page in Microsoft Access, the browser, and not Microsoft Access, is the default editor for data access pages.


MORE INFORMATION

A data access page is a separate HTML file that is stored outside your database. When you create the file, Access automatically adds a shortcut to the file in the Database window.

If you want to edit a data access page from within Access, use one of the following methods.

Method 1

  1. Open the database that contains the shortcut to the page.


  2. In the Database window, click Pages under Objects.


  3. Select the page, and then click Design.


Method 2

  1. Hold down SHIFT and right-click the file.


  2. On the shortcut menu, click Open with.


  3. In the Choose the program you want to use list, click MSACCESS. Click to clear the Always use this program to open this type of file check box, and then click OK.


The following file extensions automatically start Access as the default editor: 


   File extension           File type
   -----------------------------------------------------------
   .ade                     Microsoft Access Project Extension
   .adp                     Microsoft Access Project
   .mda                     Microsoft Access Add-in
   .mdb                     Microsoft Access Application
   .mde                     Microsoft Access MDE Database

Additional query words: DAP inf how to 


Keywords          : kbdta AccDAP DAPHowTo 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: July 8, 1999