Objective 1.3 Navigate through a database
- 1.3.1 Navigate specific records
- 1.3.2 Create and modify navigation forms
- 1.3.3 Set a form as the startup option
- 1.3.4 Display objects in the Navigation Pane
- 1.3.5 Change object views
OBJECTIVE 1.3: Contents
1.3.2 Create and modify navigation forms
To augment or replace the Navigation Pane, you can build a form that database users use to open forms, run queries, view reports, and perform other database operations.
A simple navigation form
Access provides several default layouts for navigation forms. Each of the built-in layouts provides tabs (in various locations and orientations) that users click to display the object they want to use. You can add other forms and reports to the navigation form to complete it. As you add objects to the navigation form’s tabs, Access duplicates the Add New tab, to mark where the next object tab will appear. You can also insert a navigation button to add a link in a specific position.
To create a navigation form
1. On the Create tab, in the Forms group, click Navigation, and then click the layout you want to use.
2. Expand the Navigation Pane if it is collapsed.
3. Drag the first database object (a form or report, for example) that you want to add to the navigation form from the Navigation Pane to the Add New area of the navigation form.
4. For each additional object that you want to add to the form, drag the object from the Navigation Pane and drop it before or after an existing tab.
5. To create a navigation tab that isn’t linked to a specific object, do either of the following:
• To insert a tab after the existing tabs, double-click the [Add New] tab, and then click away from it.
• To insert a tab between others, right-click the tab that is currently in the position you want for the new tab, and then click Insert Navigation button.
6. In the content area of the program window, right-click the form tab, and then click Save.