When you switch to the Layout View, you will see a series of contextual tabs appear.Īt the top of Access, you will see an area marked Form Layout Tools with three tabs - Design tab, an Arrange tab, and a Format tab and each of these tabs have different options for formatting the look or appearance of the form. To edit the appearance of the form itself, we need to go to the Layout View first. The Form View opens up by default this is the view you will use to interact with or edit the underlying data source.
You have the Layout View or the Design View, and both of these views are used to edit your form. In the Home tab, click the View drop-down. To edit the appearance of your controls on this form, you have two form views that you can use. They are too big, spaced apart and do not provide a very useful list view. Let us now open our Multiple Items form which lists out all employees from tnlEmployees.Īs you can see a list of employees, but doesn't really look like a very user friendly list.
We will now look at the different aspects of making a form presentable and understand how to edit and modify a form.
We will now discuss how to modify your form in an easy way.
Although the forms ease the process of data entry these may not serve other purposes that you would want. We have learnt several ways to create simple data entry forms.