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Adjust the database startup options

Adjust the database startup options

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Adjust the database startup options

- [Voiceover] Our database is almost finished. Now we just want to make sure that our users know exactly where to begin. By adjusting the start up options, we can have our data entry form automatically open up when the database launches. In order to do that, we'll come up and visit the File tab here on the ribbon, come down to Options, and from the Access Options screen, we'll choose Current Database. Here, I could change it so it has a nice, clean application title. In this case, I'm going to type in Landon Hotel. A few more lines down, we'll find an option for Display Form. Right now, it's currently set to None, and if I use the drop-down list, we'll see we have one option to choose the form that's in our Navigation Pane over here called Room Assignments. This option will establish the Room Assignments form as the one to launch automatically, as soon as the database opens. Let's go ahead and say OK, and we'll get a window here that tells us that we need to close and reopen the…

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