Chapter 16. Power Form Techniques

In Hour 11, “Creating Forms,” you learned the basics of building your own forms. During this hour you will learn power techniques that will help you to build more complex forms than those you built in Hour 11. In this hour you'll learn the following:

  • More about form properties

  • Quite a bit about control properties

  • How to work with bound, unbound, and calculated controls

  • How to use expressions to enhance forms

  • How to build forms based on data from more than one table

The Other Properties of a Form

As described in Hour 11, Format properties affect the appearance of a form and Data properties affect the data underlying a form. This hour focuses on the Other properties of a form. As you'll see, although these properties don't ...

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