Chapter 7. Using Form Controls and Events

In Chapter 6, we introduced events by demonstrating various techniques that are used when programming Microsoft Access 2010 forms. In this chapter, we start by discussing the key programming events that apply to most controls. We then move on to systematically examine programming with more sophisticated controls.

The first control to examine is the combo box. In this section, you look at how to synchronize data displayed in multiple controls and see the various features that can be used for dynamically adding data to the available values in the control.

Next, you look at programming list boxes and handling multiple values in code as compared ...

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