Access 2016 Intermediate

Access 2016

Lesson 8 – Using Controls and Layouts

2. Select the View button on the Home tab. 3. Select the desired view.

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Step-by-Step

From the Student Data directory, open LAYOUT1.ACCDB . Switch the view.

Open the Line Items report, if necessary.

Steps

Practice Data

1. Select the View button on the Home tab. The View drop-down menu appears.

Click View

2. Select Design view.

The view changes to layout view.

Click

Practice the concept : Follow the above steps and select Layout view.

Close the report.

U SING C ONTROLS

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Discussion

When you create forms or reports in Design view, you work with controls. Controls are objects in a form or report that contain information. Forms and reports usually include bound text box controls and unbound label controls.

Text box controls display data from fields in a table or query on which a form or report is based. Text boxes are also used as entry fields for data in a form. Text boxes are known as bound controls because the source of the data is stored in a specific field in a table.

When you add a control to a form, you decide where the control gets the information it displays. For example, add a bound text box control that displays a

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