Microsoft Access 2013 Plain & Simple

Chapter 8. Improving presentations with forms

In this section:

• Creating a continuous form with the multiple items template

• Working with control layouts

• Creating a parent/child form with the Form Wizard

• Altering link master and link child fields

• Controlling editing and data entry in a form

• Changing the data source for a form

• Organizing your database with navigation forms

• Adding fields to a form in design view

• Adding a subform to an existing form

While a datasheet provides a flexible presentation of data, forms offer more sophisticated capabilities. Subject to certain rules, one form (a subform) can be embedded in another form and then they can be linked together such that when you page through records on the main form, only related information is displayed ...