Home About us Development Training Support |
Form design in Microsoft AccessThe Access Form Design Wizard will build a form very quickly but the design is inadequate for any table with more than a few fields. A well-designed form makes a database much easier to use. The Wizard arranges the fields of the table on a form in a single column. You will want to move these fields, gathering similar items together into logical groups. To do this you have to select the fields on the form, move them around, and put them into the right order. Access gives you many choices for all three tasks in the Form Designer. Selecting fieldsThe obvious way to select a single field is to click on it. There are three ways of selecting more than one field:
Moving fieldsThe obvious way to move a field is to click on it, hold the mouse down, and drag it to a new position. These alternatives give you more control:
All these techniques move other controls like labels and pushbuttons in the same way that they move fields. Note that a label will follow its field when that moves but a field won’t follow when you move its label. Ordering fieldsWhen the user tabs between fields on a form, the order is the same as the order in which the fields were added to the form. This is unlikely to be the best order for the user. Use these techniques to change it:
|
Hints & tips
The textbox class in Visual FoxPro 9 has a new Autocomplete
property which shows the user the previous values that have
been entered in that textbox.
More...
|