IN THIS CHAPTER
Creating different types of forms
Understanding controls
Adding controls to a form
Using the Field List
Using the ribbon's Controls group
Selecting controls
Manipulating controls
Understanding control properties
Using the Property Sheet
Control naming conventions
Forms provide the most flexible way for viewing, adding, editing, and deleting your data. They are also used for switchboards (forms with buttons that provide navigation), dialog boxes that control the flow of the system, and the o displaying messages. Controls are the objects on forms such as labels, text boxes, buttons, and many others. In this chapter, you learn how to create different types of forms and get an understanding about the types of controls that are used on a form.
In this chapter, you use tblProducts in the Chapter07.accdb database to provide the data necessary to create the examples used in this chapter.
Use the Form group in the Create ribbon to add forms to your database. The commands in the Form group — shown in Figure 7-1 — let you create the following different types of forms:
Form: Creates a new form that lets you enter information for one record at a time. You must have a table, query, form, or report open or selected to use this command.
Split Form: Creates a split form that shows a datasheet in the upper section and a form in the lower section for entering information about the record selected in the datasheet.
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