Chapter 14. Customizing a Form

• Aligning and Sizing Controls in Design View

• Enhancing the Look of a Form

• Setting Control Properties for Client Forms

• Setting Client Form Properties

• Setting Client Form and Control Defaults

• Working with Web Forms in Layout View

• Starting from Scratch—A Simple Input Web Form

• Setting Control Properties for Web Forms

• Setting Web Form Properties

• Using Themes

• Working with Shared Resources

In Chapter 13, you created a client form from scratch based on the tblCompanies table in the ContactsDataCopy.accdb sample database. You also had a chance to build a simple form on tblProducts using a wizard and to make some modifications in Design view. These forms are functional, but they’re not yet professional grade. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to customize your forms in both Design view and the Layout view to make them more attractive and useful. You’ll also learn how to create web forms in web databases.

Note

The examples in this chapter are based on the forms, queries, tables, and data in the HousingDataCopy.accdb, BOSSDataCopy2, and ContactsMapCopy.accdb databases 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. Your results might look different if you are using a different operating system or a different theme.