Microsoft KB Archive/198634

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

Article ID: 198634

Article Last Modified on 6/29/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q198634



Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

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

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