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Access: Form Design
The longest week I ever wasted was the first time I tried
to create a form in Microsoft Access. I cussed and fumed for 40 hours
straight. I couldn’t figure out how to put the “blanks” on the form so
people could enter and review their data. I might have gotten there
faster if I read the book…
Designing a simple form
A form helps users fill in the blanks. Forms can be
simple: showing one record at a time. Forms can be complex: filtering
the records and updating the data automatically every time it is opened.
In general, forms are built from tables or queries. The
table, or record source, presents the data. The table also provides the
form fields. The Front Row Video.mdb has two tables: tblCustomers and
tblMovieTitles.
Let’s build the first form with a Wizard. |
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