From the course: Access 2019: Forms and Reports

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Finalize the customer form

Finalize the customer form

From the course: Access 2019: Forms and Reports

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Finalize the customer form

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- [Narrator] With the customer data entry forms design in a good spot, let's turn out attention to the final steps in making the form function properly. At this point, we have turned our form into a data entry point. Values that we type into these text boxes will populate a new record in our customer's table. But because data entry and access gets saved on the fly, we need to be a little bit cautious in how we handle this form. There's no saved changes when it comes to data entry. Simply closing this form commits those changes to the underlying data table, so when we close this form what we're really doing is saving any changes to the data table and closing the form at the same time. If we simply want to back out of any data entry, say that we've started entering in some values and we want to cancel out of the process, we first need to clear the values that might've been typed in, before we close the form. So let's create a couple of buttons that'll accomplish these tasks so that our…

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