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Adding a field to a form

Adding a field to a form - Microsoft Access Tutorial

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Adding a field to a form

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- [Instructor] Nobody's perfect. You can't think of everything. And I guarantee you even with the best preparation possible, brainstorming and story boarding your database like a champion, you're gonna forget to include something when you go to build a form whether it's a form you build from scratch, or a form you built using the Form Wizard. So what do you do if you forgot a field? You add it. Now here's my customer contact info form. It's currently in Design View. And as you can see, I left out address two. I went right from address one to city. So anyone who has a PO Box number or a suite number or anything like that, I'm not gonna know about it unless I add that field when I go to use this form. So, let's make some room for it. This particular layout can be a little touchy when you try and move things around and resize them. So what I want to do is make more room for address two. And I'm gonna slim down all of the fields ahead of it. So I'm gonna grab the bottom handle on company…

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