Access 2002 Programming by Example

Chapter 21. Taking Charge of Forms

In the last chapter, you learned about big problems that come in small packages. This chapter deals with bigger packages by showing you why forms are so powerful.

By now, you have gone well beyond form basics. You can perform operations programmatically now that you had to do manually before. You can change a form’s properties, retrieve lookup values, import and export objects, and do the common tasks that you expect to accomplish using forms. But there is still much to learn about multifunctional form objects. In fact, you might be tempted to think that the best was saved until last (well, almost last). In this chapter, you learn the following:

• how query parameters are used with forms

• all about pop-up forms ...