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Microsoft Access 2013 developer tab missing


I have Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 where I can enable Developer tab on MS Word and Excel but the tab is missing in the Customize Ribbons option of MS Access as shown in the figure below: enter image description here. It should be listed in the "Main Tabs" group but it's not available in any group.


Solution

  • The "Developer" tab in Word and Excel was introduced (and hidden by default) to simplify the user interface for non-developers, which represent the vast majority of Word and Excel users. On the other hand, Access is much more widely used as a development tool so the "Developer" features are not relegated to a particular tab.

    In other words, you can't see the "Developer" tab in Access because Access doesn't have one.