Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step eBook

(Ben Green) #1

Creating Forms by Using the Form Tool 825



  1. On the View Shortcuts toolbar, click the Form View button. Then move the
    mouse pointer over the form, and click the City label.
    In Form view, the Form Layout Tools contextual tabs are no longer displayed.
    Clicking a label doesn’t select the label for manipulation; instead it selects the
    entry in the adjacent text box, ready for editing.


The first record, displayed in Form view.


  1. In the record navigation bar at the bottom of the form, click the Next Record
    button.
    Access displays the second record in the table.

  2. Use the record navigation bar to display a few more records.


Tip You can easily compare the information shown in the form to that in the table by
alternately clicking the Customers table tab and the Customers form tab to switch back
and forth between their pages.


  1. At the right end of the record navigation bar, click the New (Blank) Record
    button.
    Access displays a blank Customers form, ready for you to enter information for a
    new customer.

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