On Your Own

Here are some additional exercises for enhancing your secondary data source and developing general form design skills:

  1. Add drop-down lists populated by secondary data sources for selecting CustomerID values by CompanyName, ShipVia by CompanyName, and ProductID by ProductName.

  2. Add an Extended expression box to calculate individual Order Details amounts and column totals as described in the section “Calculating Values with the Expression Box,” in Chapter 6.

  3. Add data validation rules to the form based on the examples in Chapter 8, “Validating Form Data.”

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