From the course: Cert Prep: Access 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist (77-730)
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Configure form controls
From the course: Cert Prep: Access 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist (77-730)
Configure form controls
- [Instructor] Once you've created your forms, you may want to go in and make some changes to the form. For instance, you might want to add additional form controls. Maybe when you created your form, you left a couple of fields off that you now realize you want to include on the form so I'm going to show you how to add those fields. You may also need to modify your data source. Maybe you added a field when you were creating the form that you no longer need and you want to remove it from the form. I'll show you how to do that. And last but not least, I'll show you how to set form control properties. If you want to bold a particular label or field or maybe change the font color so it really stands out, we do that in the form properties. Let's go ahead and take a look at the 05_02 FormControls.accdb and I'll open up the 2016 sales form. It looks very clean. I do see that we could probably shorten up each of these fields to give us a little more white space on the form. Now to do that, we…
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