Note that the Microsoft switchboard allows you do "nest" switchboards
- your main switchboard could simply have a list of the toplevel
choices, and the user could "drill down" to the actual desired action.
You don't need to have all the choices onscreen at once!

An alternative technique that I use routinely is to "roll my own"
switchboard. It is a form based on a table named Switchboard; this
table has fields for Category (integer), ObjectName, ObjectType,
UserLabel, and Action (defaulting to Open).

On the Form is an Option Group allowing the user to select a Category,
and a Listbox based on a query showing all the UserLabel entries for
the selected category.

In the Listbox's DoubleClick event, there's code to perform the
selected Action on the selected ObjectName - i.e. if the Action is
Open, the ObjectType is acForm (I use the builtin constants), and the
ObjectName is "MyForm" the code opens that form.

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