From the course: Access 2016 Essential Training
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Record navigation
- Scrolling through the records on the form using the navigation buttons on the bottom is not really a great experience. We can see this on our employee form if we try and find a specific employee. Let's go ahead and open up that form by double clicking on it and let's try and find Phyllis Lucero. I can see the name is listed right here, so if I go ahead and start navigating through my records, I can check each one of these until I find her. And there she is on number eight. So it's a good thing she wasn't number 108, or we'd be clicking for quite a while. We can dramatically improve this functionality by creating a combo box that will jump us to the record that we want. In order to start the process, we need to go into design view. So I'll come up here on the home tab and I'll change my view into design view there. Then, I'm going to add in a new combo box into my form. We can find the combo box in the controls section of the design tab, and it's this object right here with the…
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Creating forms in Design view4m 29s
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Exploring the form property sheet4m 55s
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Setting data sources6m 8s
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Adding components with form controls11m 28s
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Understanding input boxes5m 24s
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Record navigation4m 2s
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Adding buttons4m 21s
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Assigning a tab order4m 36s
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Checking out the More Forms options5m 57s
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Creating a navigation form4m 25s
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Challenge: Creating forms46s
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Solution: Creating forms4m 29s
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