April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 39m
English
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Hack #1. Help Users Find the Objects They Need
Place shortcuts to pertinent objects in custom groups so that users don't have to wade through all the database objects.
The Access database window can be overwhelming to some users. Tables, queries, forms, reports; determining where to find objects you need within these object collections isn't exactly a user-friendly process. Besides, sometimes a user needs just a handful of objects to complete his work. And yet he might be confronted with considerably more objects than he needs.
Luckily, the Access database window allows you to create custom groupings in which you can place shortcuts to only the desired objects. Just as the Windows desktop has shortcuts to folders, files, and applications, Access lets you make shortcuts to your database objects. And it's a cakewalk to do so!
The Plain Database Window
Your Access application might open to a navigation, or main, form. From there, users click their way through the application. But not all applications are made in this way. Figure 1-1 shows the plain database window in all its unimpressive glory. Some applications open to this functional but inefficient window.
Figure 1-1. The standard Access database window
Of course, you can get to all the objects you need from here: click the Queries tab to find the queries you want to run, or click the Reports tab to find the reports you want to run. ...
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