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Microsoft®
Access®
2010 Training
Create forms for a new database
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Course contents
• Overview: A window into your data
• Lesson: Includes five sections
• Suggested practice tasks
• Test
• Quick Reference Card
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Course goals• Create a detail form.
• Create a split form — a form that lets you work
with single records and large amounts of data.
• Use the Form Wizard to create a form.
• Use Layout view to create a subform — a form
that lets you work with one-to-many data.
• Create a Navigation form.
• Use Layout view to change a form; use Design
view to change a form.
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Types of forms
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Ways to create forms
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Change forms in Layout view
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Suggestions for practice
1. Create a detail form.
2. Create a split form.
3. Create a subform.
4. Use Layout view to change the subform.
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Online practice (requires Access 2010)
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Test question 1
A split form offers the best way to: (Pick one answer.)
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1. View data from different sources.
2. Change the form without altering data in the underlying
table.
3. Enter or view individual records and large amounts of
data.
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Test question 1
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A split form shows you individual records and all the
records in your data source.
A split form offers the best way to:
Answer:
3. Enter or view individual records and large amounts of data.
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Test question 2
When you design a form, what’s your goal? (Pick one
answer.)
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1. Make the form logical and complete, meaning it
captures all the data you need.
2. Provide room for graphics, because they make your
database seem friendly.
3. Help users understand your data with just a glance.
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Test question 2
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Use as many fields and controls as necessary to do a given
task.
When you design a form, what’s your goal?
Answer:
1. Make the form logical and complete, meaning it captures all the data you need.
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Test question 3
You can add controls to a form when working in Layout
view. (Pick one answer.)
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1. True.
2. False.
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Test question 3
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You can also add controls in Design view, but the process is
more involved.
You can add controls to a form when working in Layout
view.
Answer:
1. True.
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Test question 4
Here’s a bit of a brain teaser — think back to the first page of the course. A bound control is what? (Pick one answer.)
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1. Locked so users can’t enter text.
2. Connected to an underlying table or query.
3. Kept from moving when you resize the form.
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Test question 4
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This allows users to enter and change data. Remember that
not all controls are bound to a data source. For
example, controls that display images aren’t bound.
Here’s a bit of a brain teaser — think back to the first page of the course. A bound control is what?
Answer:
2. Connected to an underlying table or query.
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Quick Reference Card
For a summary of the tasks covered in this course, view the Quick Reference Card.
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