Part IV: Professional Database Development
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Display Status Bar
Deselect the Display Status Bar check box to remove the status bar from the bottom of the Access
screen. (This option is selected by default.)Tip
The status bar is an informative and easy-to-use tool because it automatically displays key states (such as Caps
Lock and Scroll Lock), as well as the Status Bar Text property for the active control. Instead of hiding the status
bar, you should make full use of it and disable it only it if you have a very good reason to do so.
Document Window Options
Under Document Window Options, you can choose how the forms and reports look in your dis-
tributed application. Your options arel (^) Overlapping Windows: Overlapping Windows retains the look of previous versions of
Access, letting you look at multiple forms at once.
l (^) Tabbed Documents: Tabbed Documents uses a single-document interface (shown in
Figure 31.2) similar to recent versions of Internet Explorer.
FIGURE 31.2
A database with the Tabbed Documents option selected. The tabs let you select which
Access object to work with.