[Gregor1234]

Having had no luck posting to the Business Applications Forum...

My question pertains to MS Access/Office:

How can I make a separate copy of the "Window" submenu item in a custom menu bar that will allow the user to switch from window to window but do nothing else without also removing the other options (tile, cascade arrange, etc) from the "Window" submenu item in the standard menu bar?

In my app I want to restrict the things that a user can do so I created my own, pared-down versions of the standard menu bar and tool bar and turn off the standard ones upon startup. I want to add the "Window" submenu to my custom menu bar. In this custom version of the window submenu, I don't want to be able to tile, arrange, or hide/unhide, I simply want a list of visable windows and to be able to choose one of them to be the active window.

I know how to put a new submenu item in a custom menu and how to insert menu items into it but I don't know how to add this un-named capability to my custom "Window" submenu without affecting the options showing in the Window submenu item in the standard toolbar.

I tried copying the existing Window submenu from the standard menu bar onto my own custom menu bar by ctrl-dragging it, but rather than creating a new instance of the windows submenu, it apparently only created a new pointer or shortcut to the existing window submenu item because when I went to delete the tile/cascade/hide/etc items from the custom window submenu, they also disappeared from the window submenu in the standard menu bar.

Same for using "Built-In Menus"...in fact, the MS Help explains that when you use Built-In Menus you get a pointer and not a new instance.

How can I make a separate copy of the Window submenu item in a custom menu bar that will allow the user to switch from window to window (but nothing else)?