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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 interactivity 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 that my cursor is changed to indicate that I'm going to add 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 will start up the command button wizard. In the button wizard, we have several categories of different actions that we can perform with…

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