5.5 Resizing Controls on Forms 5.6 Creating a Form in Design View 5.7 Entering Records into a Form

1. 5.5 Resizing Controls on Forms
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• Resizing and moving controls with the mouse requires a little practice.
• As you move the mouse pointer over a selected control, the mouse pointer changes to
allow you to do different things to the control.
1. Click Create.
2. Click Form Design.
Pointer Name Appears If Clicked
Insertion point When you move the
mouse pointer over the
center of a selected
control.
Allows you to edit the
control text.
Horizontal, vertical, or
diagonal double-headed
arrows
When you move the
mouse pointer over any of
the handles on the edge of
the control, except the
top-left handle.
Allows you to resize
the control in the
directions that the
arrow is pointing.
Hand When you move the
mouse pointer over the
edges of a control but
between the handles.
Allows you to move
the control and its
corresponding label or
text box.
Pointing hand When you move the
mouse pointer over the
handle in the top-left
corner of the control.
Allows you to move
the control without
moving its
corresponding label or
text box.
5.6 Creating a Form in Design View
• When you use Design view to create a form, you begin with a blank form and add one or
more controls to the form.
• If you want to use fields from an existing table or query, you must first set that table or
query as the source of the table in the form.
• You set the source of the form using the Record Source property in the property sheet for
the form.
• After you designate the table or query as the source of the form, a field list appears that
contains all the fields from the table or query.
• You can then drag the fields that you want to use from the field list to the form. Fields that
you add to a form in Design view are bound controls because they are based on an
underlying table or query.

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3. Double-click the form selector.
4. In the Form property sheet, click the All tab, click the Record Source down arrow, and then
click the table that you want to use as the source for the form.
5. Close the Form property sheet.
6. Click Add Existing Fields.
7. Drag the fields that you want to use from the field list to the form.
8. Create additional controls using the tools in the control ribbon.

3. 5.7 Entering Records into a Form
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• Aside from making it easier to view data, the other key advantage of forms is that they
make it easy to enter data.
• Tables and forms are interactive, meaning that entering a record in a table also enters the
record into the form based on that table.
• Likewise, entering data in a form also enters that data into the underlying table for the
form.
• When you enter a new record into a form, the record is saved automatically when you
move to another record.
• Access saves the record even if you close the form without clicking Save.
• In general, entering data into a form consists of locating a blank record and typing data in
it, using the shortcut keys to move from control to control