Microsoft® Office Access 2003 Inside Out

Defining Switchboard Forms

Usually the last forms that you build are the switchboard forms that give the user direct access to the major tasks in your application.

Designing a Switchboard Form from Scratch

Your main switchboard form should be a simple form with a logo, a title, and perhaps as many as eight command buttons. The command buttons can be used to open the forms that you defined in the application. Figure 24-19 on the next page shows the main switchboard form for the LawTrack Contacts database in Design view.

Figure 24-19. The main switchboard form for the LawTrack Contacts database.

One feature worth mentioning here is the use of the ampersand ...