Main Menu -  The MRU (Select) Button  
Applies to Access 97, 2000, 2002, 2003
           

Most Recently Used allows you to use from the lists maintained by all versions of Microsoft Access of the databases that you have visited recently.   

Figure 1 - Getting to the most recently used databases menu item

When you choose the Most Recently Used (MRU) menu item, you are presented with a form like that shown in Figure 2 below. Here you can select from the last databases used by Access. Generally Access 2000, 2002 and 2003 will keep 9 entries and Access 97 will keep 4 entries. To select a database, click on the hyperlink and it will be selected for use by the Workbench.

Figure 2 - The Most Recently Used form

To use this form, you may need to switch the version of Access that you want to review the Most Recently Used for.  If you select a database from a different MRU list, the default version of Access 2000+ will be changed to that version.

Figure 3 - Choose the version of Access that you want to display the MRU list for.

Browse For More

The Browse for More option will startup a File Browser so that you can select your database. Read more about this option. 

Add Database To Favorite List

Before you select a database, if you think that you want to reuse the database over and over again, why not add it to the Workbench favorites list.

Changing Your Default Way Of Selecting a Database

If you like this option more than the select database by browsing option, all you need to do is place a tick in the check box at the bottom of this form entitled "Always use this Form as the Select database interface". If you check the option, this form will turn up instead.

Figure 4 - Change the default select database interface

Hint:  If you wish to deal other databases on a regular basis, save them in the Workbench favorites.

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