F. Scott Barker’s Microsoft Access 2002 Power Programming

Chapter 9. Creating Powerful Forms

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Increasing Form Performance 242

• Looking at Access 2002’s New Form Features 243

• Taking Advantage of Other Form Features 245

• Reusing Forms to Perform Standard Tasks 251

• Increasing Tabbed Form Performance 260

One of the most powerful features of Access is the control and flexibility available when creating forms. Microsoft has continued to listen to developers using Access. Control has been enhanced over how forms look and behave—not only at design time, but also at runtime. With Access, you can create good-looking forms to perform tasks that would take reams of code in other languages.

Access gives you more power for managing forms. In this chapter, you get to see these features, as well as see some techniques ...