From the course: Microsoft Access: Forms and Reports
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Create a form with the form wizard
From the course: Microsoft Access: Forms and Reports
Create a form with the form wizard
- [Instructor] There's a number of ways that you can add interactive forms into your Access projects. You can find them all by going to the create ribbon and taking a look at the forms group. Here we have lots of buttons that all create different kinds of forms to the project. Let's take a look at the very first one that simply says form. This will build a data entry form using the selected table in the navigation pane as its input. I want to build a basic form using the orders table. So, I'll select it in the navigation pane, then come back up and click the form button. That creates a data entry form and it places fields for each of the columns in the original table. I have the order ID, date, customer ID, product number and quantity. Right now, we're in a view called layout view. And I can see that by taking a look at the name of the tab here at the very top. This will allow me to resize the different elements…
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