From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports
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Organize the form design
From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports
Organize the form design
- [Voiceover] Combining the form wizard and layout view are an easy way to get started at creating your own databases forms. But the real power and flexibility lies in utilizing the full design environment for creating forms from scratch. Once you understand what's going on under the hood, creating your own forms that meet your exact specifications and needs will become second nature. Let's start by creating an employee directory for H+ Sport. Now before I start any form project, I like to review the underlying data. Let's go ahead and open up the employees table by double clicking on it. Inside the employees table, we'll find lots of different records for each of our employees, and if I look at the bottom, I've got 746 of them. I've got columns that describe their employee id number, their first and last name, their email address, department, position and status, and hire date, as well as some information about their benefits. Let's go ahead and scroll over here to the far right and…
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Organize the form design7m 27s
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Format objects and the Format Painter6m 4s
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Object alignment5m 1s
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Anchor controls3m 30s
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Modify form properties5m 44s
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Combine text boxes2m 42s
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Add a form header4m 47s
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Challenge: Exploring form properties31s
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Solution: Exploring form properties7m 47s
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