From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports

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Solution: Navigate the database

Solution: Navigate the database

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Solution: Navigate the database

- [Voiceover] So were you able to create your navigation system? Here's how I'd approach the challenge. First I'd come into the main menu form here, and I'll switch it into design view. Now I could just copy this button and make a copy of it and then just edit the macro. I think the educational value of that exercise would be a little bit limited so let's go ahead and go through the long version of this. I'll click on the button option up here, click down here to add in a new button, and this time we're gonna open up a form. We're going to open the form here, so that's under form operations, open the form. The form I wanna open is the product listing form, so I'll go ahead and scroll through until I find that. And say next. We're gonna open it, show all the records. This time I can choose either text or a picture. And let me take a moment here and just talk about my thinking on this option. Now I actually want both, the text and the picture, I could choose either option here, really…

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