Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms...................................................................................... 253 ...

Part I: Access Building Blocks 254 FIGURE 7.2 Use the Form command to quickly create a new form with all the fields from a table ...

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms 255 To start the Form Wizard based on tblCustomers, follow these steps: Select tblCustom ...

Part I: Access Building Blocks 256 Caution If you click Next or Finish without selecting any fields, Access tells you that you m ...

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms 257 The main advantage of using the Form Wizard is that it binds the new form to a data s ...

Part I: Access Building Blocks 258 In Figure 7.7, the Horizontal Tabs option was selected when choosing a navigation form templa ...

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms 259 FIGURE 7.8 Use the Navigation Target Name property to specify the tab’s subform. Sele ...

Part I: Access Building Blocks 260 FIGURE 7.9 A navigation form is a quick and easy way to provide basic navigation features. Ta ...

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms 261 Access creates a new multiple-items form based on tblProducts displayed in Layout vie ...

Part I: Access Building Blocks 262 FIGURE 7.11 Create a split form when you want to select records from a list and edit them in ...

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms 263 Resizing the form area The white area of the form is where you work. This is the size ...

Part I: Access Building Blocks 264 Working with Controls Controls and properties form the basis of forms and reports. It’s criti ...

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms 265 Table 7.1 briefly describes the basic Access controls. TABLE 7.1 Controls in Access F ...

Part I: Access Building Blocks 266 The Use Control Wizards button, revealed by expanding the Controls group by clicking on the M ...

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms 267 l (^) By dragging a field from the Field List to add a bound control to the form: Acc ...

Part I: Access Building Blocks 268 FIGURE 7.14 Unbound controls added from the Controls group Using the Field List The Field Lis ...

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms 269 FIGURE 7.15 Click Add Existing Fields in the Tools group to show the Field List. Caut ...

Part I: Access Building Blocks 270 FIGURE 7.16 Drag fields from the Field List to add bound controls to the form. You can see fo ...

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms 271 Note As you add controls from the Field List, Access builds the form’s RecordSource p ...

Part I: Access Building Blocks 272 Selecting a single control Select any individual control by clicking anywhere on the control. ...