From the perspective of daily use, forms are the most important objects you’ll build in your Microsoft Access 2010 application because they’re what users see and work with every time they run the application. This chapter shows you how to design and build forms in an Access 2010 client database. You’ll learn how to work with a Form window in Design view to build a basic form based on a single table, and you’ll learn how to use the Form Wizard to simplify the form-creation process. You’ll also learn how to use some of the special form controls to simplify data entry on your forms. The last section of this chapter shows you how to use Application Part Forms to get a jumpstart on creating forms.
Note
The examples in this chapter are based on the forms, the tables, and the data in ContactsDataCopy.accdb on the companion CD included with this book. The results you see from the samples in this chapter might not exactly match what you see in this book if you have changed the sample data in the file. Also, all the screen images in this chapter were taken on a Windows 7 system with the Access color scheme set to Silver, and Use Windows-Themed Controls On Forms has been turned on in the sample databases. Your results might look different if you are using a different operating system or a different theme.
