Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Part I: Access Building Blocks

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Navigating among fields

Navigating a form is nearly identical to moving around a datasheet. You can easily move around

the form by clicking the control that you want and making changes or additions to your data.

Because the form window displays only as many fields as can fit on-screen, you need to use various

navigational aids to move within your form or between records.

Table 8.1 displays the navigational keys used to move between fields within a form.

TABLE 8.1

Navigating in a Form

Navigational Direction Keystrokes

Next field Tab, right-arrow (→) or down-arrow (↓) key, or Enter

Previous field Shift+Tab, left-arrow (←), or up-arrow (↑)

First field of current record Home or Ctrl+Home

Last field of current record End or Ctrl+End

Next page PgDn or Next Record

Previous page PgUp or Previous Record

If you have a form with more data that can fit on the screen at one time, a vertical scroll bar dis-

plays. You can use the scroll bar to move to different pages on the form. You can also use the PgUp

and PgDn keys to move between form pages. You can move up or down one field at a time by

clicking the scroll-bar arrows. With the scroll-bar button, you can move past many fields at once.

Moving among records in a form

Although you generally use a form to display one record at a time, you still need to move between

records. The easiest way to do this is to use the Navigation buttons, shown in Figure 8.3.

The Navigation buttons are the six controls located at the bottom-left corner of the Form window.

The two leftmost controls move you to the first record and the previous record in the form. The

three rightmost controls position you on the next record, last record, or new record in the form. If

you know the record number (the row number of a specific record), you can click the Record

Number box, enter a record number, and press Enter.

FIGURE 8.3

The Navigation buttons of a form