8 Building Powerful Forms

When building forms in Access 2010, you must be familiar with many important techniques.

Forms allow you to display the information stored in your database. In Chapter 3, “Using Forms to Enter and Edit Table Data,” you learned the basics of working with forms. Here we expand on your knowledge quite a bit. We begin by working with controls. You then learn about conditional formatting where Access displays data in a control differently depending on the value associated with the control. Next we cover how to customize the behavior of both forms and controls using form and control properties. You learn how to work with combo boxes and how to generate macros with the Command Button Wizard. Finally, you learn how to build ...

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