From the course: Microsoft Access Essential Training (Office 2024/LTSC)
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- [Instructor] I've spent a few minutes sprucing up the design of the customer orders form so that it has a cohesive look that highlights the Two Trees company's branding. Little details like adding images and applying consistent fonts and colors can go a long way towards making your access databases look like a professionally designed product. Now we can turn our attention to improving the workflow of locating a customer's order history. On our customer orders form, we have a situation where it's difficult to find a specific person. Right now we can page forward and backward through the database, but we have to do that one record at a time, and we know there's over 2000 customers here. Imagine trying to locate the correct page for someone that's on the phone with a question about their past orders. You'd have to slowly page through everyone one record at a time, and obviously that's not a great way to work. We can alleviate this problem by adding a search box to the top of our form…
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