Chapter 12. Creating and Using Forms
Access forms create the user interface to your tables. Although you can use Table view and Query view to perform many of the same functions as forms, forms offer the advantage of presenting data in an organized and attractive manner. You can arrange the location of fields on a form so that data entry or editing operations for a single record follow a left-to-right, top-to-bottom sequence. Forms let you create multiple-choice selections for fields that use shorthand codes to represent a set of allowable values. A properly designed form speeds data entry and minimizes operator keying errors.
Forms are constructed from a collection of individual design elements called controls or control objects. Controls are ...
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