Alison Balter’s Mastering Microsoft Access 2002 Desktop Development

Chapter 9. Advanced Form Techniques

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• What Are the Section and Control Events, and When Do You Use Them? 354

• What Types of Forms Can I Create, and When Are They Appropriate? 362

• Using Built-In Dialog Boxes 370

• Adding Custom Menus, Toolbars, and Shortcut Menus to Your Forms 374

• Taking Advantage of Built-In, Form-Filtering Features 379

• Including Objects from Other Applications: Linking Versus Embedding 381

• Switching a Form’s Record Source 383

• Power Combo Box and List Box Techniques 386

• Synchronizing a Form with Its Underlying Recordset 395

• Creating Custom Properties and Methods 396

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Why This Chapter Is Important

Given Access’s graphical environment, your development efforts are often centered on forms. Therefore, ...