From the course: Microsoft Access: Forms and Reports

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Button controls

Button controls

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Button controls

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- [Instructor] Buttons are one of the key interactive elements that you'll use on your forms. They instantly tell the end user that something will happen when they click it. Buttons will be linked to either Macros or Visual Basic Code to control their behavior. And you might be surprised to hear that you can also add buttons to a report, and they're actually quite useful there. They can aid navigate or filtering while viewing the report on-screen. The nice thing about that arrangement though is that buttons won't actually show when printed if they're placed on a report. But let's take a look at how we can use buttons on a form. You'll find them just like all the other controls in the controls toolbox here, and the button icon is this one right here. I like to call this the button button. Let's go ahead and click it to activate it. Now, when I move my mouse cursor into the detail section of the form design, I'll…

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