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Make a navigation form that opens when you open Access

Make a navigation form that opens when you open Access - Microsoft Access Tutorial

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Make a navigation form that opens when you open Access

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- [Instructor] A really good navigation form can easily replace the All Access Objects panel for finding the forms and reports you use all the time. With a simple series of steps I can set it up so that when I open this particular database this navigation form is all I see on screen. Two steps involved there. Access always remembers how you left the workspace in a given database when you close it and exit out. So I'm gonna shrink the All Access Objects panel by clicking these little double triangles. And of course you can always bring it back, it reminds you that that's where the navigation pane is and you can click it and it can come back. But if I shrink this and then go in and set this up to be the display that appears when I open this database, Access will also remember that I had collapsed my All Access Objects panel. And that's important because if you're gonna make the navigation panel the main way of moving around why would you still have this showing? So I'm going to minimize…

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