Microsoft® Office Access 2003 Inside Out

Designing Data Access Pages

When you first begin designing data access pages, you’ll notice many similarities with designing Access forms and reports. In some ways, data access pages are a cross between forms and reports—you can create data access pages to display and edit data similar to forms, and you can create data access pages that display and total groups of information similar to a report.

Setting Options for Data Access Pages

Before jumping in and creating data access pages, let’s look at some of the option settings that you can customize. To set the options for your data access pages, choose Options from the Tools menu and then click the Pages tab. The Options dialog box displays the settings you can customize as shown in Figure 27-7 on ...