From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports
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Create a main menu
- [Voiceover] The forms that we've looked at so far have all been linked to a data source and pulled records from our databases' tables, but forms don't always have to interact with data, they can be stand-alone elements that provide interactivity for our end-users. In other words, a form can simply be a blank area where you can group buttons and capture user intent to help them navigate the database. When used appropriately, these types of navigation-centric forms can completely remove any need for your users to dig around in the Navigation Pane over here on the left side of the screen. You can control exactly what your users have access to and often, more importantly, what they don't have access to. In this movie, we're gonna create a Main Menu that'll help our end users navigate the H+ Sport Database. I wanna start this menu by re-purposing the image background form that we created in the last chapter. Let's just go ahead and right-click on it, and I'll choose Rename from the…
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