Design Professional Looking Forms in Access 2007 Using the Ribbon
- by Carol Bratt on 20070903 @ 12:29AM EST | google it | send to friends
- Filed under Carol's Corner Office | (related terms: forms, access, field, customer records, tools)
The predefined layout features in Access 2007 can eliminate a lot of the manual work and trepidation involved in designing forms.
You can now group, align and format your controls, all from the Forms Design Tools Ribbon with a few clicks of the mouse.
The example below shows you how to design a customer contact form from your Customer Records table.
Follow along with the steps below:
- Launch MS Access.
- Open the Customer database and click the Customer Records table in the Navigation pane.
- Click the Create tab.
- Click the Form Design command in the Forms group.
- Click the Add Existing Fields button in the Tools group.
- Click a field in the Field list and drag it to your form.
- Do this for each field you want on the form.
- Press Ctrl |A to select all the fields on the form.
- Click the Arrange tab.
- Click the Stacked icon in the Control Layout group.
- Click the Control Padding command in the Control Layout group and select Medium.
- Click the AutoFormat button in the AutoFormat group and select the format of your choice.
You never thought it would be that simple did you?
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