From the course: Access 2019: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
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Provide task-specific help dialog boxes
From the course: Access 2019: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Provide task-specific help dialog boxes
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 from graphics from web design. I also like exploring other programs and finding ideas that'll enhance my database projects. If we open up the options menu by coming up here to the file tab and then coming down to options, we'll see one of the things that's inspired me. Here and there throughout the interface we'll see these little I icons here in the blue circle, and when I hover my house over it we'll get a popup text that provides some explanatory help. I like to implement this kind of interface element into my own databases. So I'm gonna go ahead and press the cancel button to dismiss the options window. And I'm gonna open up our product listing page by clicking on the button here at the bottom. Now the bottom half of this split form is actually not editable, you just can't make selections here. But I can't edit any of the…
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