Microsoft® Office Access 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 10. Using Forms

Uses of Forms

A Tour of Forms

Moving Around on Forms and Working with Data

Searching for and Sorting Data

Printing Forms

If you’ve worked through this book to this point, you should understand all the mechanics of designing and building databases (and connecting to external ones), entering and viewing data in tables, and building queries. An understanding of tables and queries is important before you jump into forms because most of the forms you design will be bound to an underlying table or a query.

This chapter focuses on the external aspects of forms—why forms are useful, what they look like, and how to use them. You’ll look at examples of forms from the LawTrack Contacts sample database. In Chapter 11, Chapter 12, and Chapter 13 ...