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Add buttons to the form

Add buttons to the form

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Add buttons to the form

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- [Voiceover] Buttons provide an easy method to add inner activity to your databases, and can help guide your users from task to task. I'd like to add a couple of buttons to our room assignments form, and to do that, we'll revisit the form in design view. In order to get there, you can just right click on it, and choose Design View, from the pop up menu, or if you open it up, you can use the View button here. Now that I'm in design view, I'll take a look at the design contextual tab that just opened up. The control that I'm looking for, is the button object, which is this one here, the rectangle with the four x's in it. I'll go ahead and click that, and when I move back down here you'll notice my cursor has changed to indicate that I'm going to be adding a button with the next click that I make. I'll come down into my form, and I'll give it a click, and that'll start up the Command Button Wizard. In the button wizard, we have several categories of different actions that we can perform…

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