Chapter 13. Designing Custom Multitable Forms
The controls that the Form Wizard adds to the forms it creates are only a sampling of the 20 native control objects offered by Access 97. Until now, you used the Form Wizard to create the labels, text boxes, and subform controls for displaying and editing data in the Personnel Actions table. These three kinds of controls are sufficient for creating a conventional transaction processing form.
The remaining 17 controls described in this chapter allow you to take full advantage of the Windows graphical user environment. You add controls to the form by using the Access Toolbox. List and combo boxes increase data entry productivity and accuracy by allowing you to choose from a list of predefined values ...
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