From the course: Access 2016: Advanced Tips and Tricks
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From the course: Access 2016: Advanced Tips and Tricks
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- [Voiceover] By default, your Access database is wide open for development. This makes it easy for you to design all the forms, tables, queries, and reports that are needed for your custom database application. However, when it's time to deploy the database to your end users, you can't be certain that they'll know what to do with all of those options, and maybe more importantly, what not to do. Ideally, you've developed your custom database application to provide all the navigation controls to get to the forms and reports that you want the end users to interact with. For instance, in this H+ Sport database, I've got this Main Menu form here. This will provide buttons in order to open up the Employee Directory and get back to the Main Menu, or enter in a new customer and again return to the Main Menu. Finding ways to remove as much of the Access interface, such as the navigation pane, and the unused ribbon tabs across the top will help keep your end users away from the things that…
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