Sorry if this has been answered before, but I couldn't find it.

The menu choices to show Toolbars at the top are disabled for some of my databases (but not all). I have no idea why! Is there a setting to change? Is one of my scripts causing a side-effect? A new, empty dbase does not have this problem.

I'm not using OSX - I'm on a PC running W2K, using FMP6.

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Are there passwords involved with those that are grayed out?

Nope, no passwords on any of these. We're very small, and I don't even bother. But I do make many, many small datbases, and it doesn't seem to be too consistant. However, I will investigate the password idea just in case I learn something.

There is this script step "Allow Toolbars"

Run a script with "Allow Toolbars [ On ] and see if this re-enables them.

Ernst.

Allow Toolbars[Off] will certainly grey-out the Toolbars menu item, and as far asI'm aware it is the only think that will, so I think Ernst is on the nail.

However the command is only active for the current file session, so if the problem occurs every time you open certain files, it likely indicates that the Allow Toolbars [Off] setting has been included in the start-up script (otherwise closing the file and reopening it would restore the toolbars option).

But McCormick is making these databases himself, which means that he has scripted the 'Allow Toolbars[Off]' himself, made the script a startup script and then forgot about it ?

HA!

Well, you're all right, and my problem is solved, and a big thank-you all around. It was indeed in the Open script, God knows why, but it's gone now. I think this is a holdover from trying to solve a completely different problem and copying somebody's startup script wholesale without noticing (or understanding) that element.