From the course: Access 2016: Advanced Tips and Tricks

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Provide task-specific help dialog boxes

Provide task-specific help dialog boxes

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Provide task-specific help dialog boxes

- [Voiceover] When working on Access databases, I like looking for inspiration in unexpected places. Such as earlier in the course when I talked briefly about borrowing ideas regarding graphics from web design. I also like exploring other programs and finding ideas that will enhance my database projects. If we open up the options menu by going over here to the file tab and coming down to options, we'll see one of the things that has recently given me an idea for a database enhancement. Here and there throughout the options screen, you'll see these little circle icons. When you hover your mouse over them you'll get a little pop up with some additional information or instruction. I'd like to borrow this idea and incorporate it into the H+ Sport database itself. Let's go ahead and just press cancel to dismiss the options screen. Then, I'm gonna open up the view product listing form here. The product listing form is a split form where we can select a product from the list down here and…

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