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Adjusting form elements in Layout view

Adjusting form elements in Layout view

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Adjusting form elements in Layout view

- The one-click method of generating a Form got us started by placing text boxes for all of our Table Fields into a single Form. We can find it in a new group here on our Navigation Pane, called Forms, here, and this is the Form we generated in the last movie. Let's go ahead and double click on it to open it up. Right now, we're in what's called Form View, which allows us to work with the data. If we go up here to the View button, you'll notice that we have a couple of different options by pressing the bottom part of it. We can switch into Form View, which is where we're at right now, Layout View or Design View. You'll notice that the upper half of the button will toggle you back and forth between Layout View here and back to Form View. So if you want to get into Design View, you'll have to use the bottom portion of the button, but in this movie, we're just going to work with the Layout View and the Form View so you can use the upper half to toggle back and forth. When you're in…

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