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Completing the Main Personnel Actions Entry Form

In the following sections, you learn how to use the Control Wizards to help you add a subform to a form. Before you add the subform, however, you should complete the main frmPersonnelActionsEntry form. Like the form that you created with the Form Wizard in Chapter 12, the purpose of this form is to display records from the Personnel Actions table so that a user can view the history of an employee's personnel actions. The form also conveniently provides a means of adding new personnel action records.

In the form you created in Chapter 12, you viewed the history of personnel records and also added new records in a tabular subform, while information from the Employees table was displayed only on the ...