Access 2016 Intermediate

Access 201

Lesson 9 – Manipulating Form Controls in Design View

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Step-by-Step

From the Student Data directory, open CONTROL1.ACCDB . Select non-adjacent controls.

Open the Customer Sales form in Design view.

Steps

Practice Data

1. Click the first control you want to select. Sizing handles appear around the control. 2. Hold [Shift] and click any additional controls. Sizing handles appear around the selected controls.

Click the Contract Date text box (bound control)

Hold [Shift] and click the Customer Type text box

Notice the sizing handles that appear around the bound controls (text boxes). Notice that a moving handle also appears in the upper left corner of both the bound (text box) and unbound (label) controls.

Practice the Concept: If necessary, hold the [Shift] key and click the Store Name unbound control. Then, click in a blank area of the form to deselect the controls.

S ELECTING A DJACENT C ONTROLS

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Discussion

By selecting controls in Design view, you are telling Access which elements are affected by the next command or operation you perform. Select multiple controls to affect by the next command or operation rather than selecting each control individually. If the controls are beside one another, select the controls by dragging a rectangle around them.

When multiple controls are selected, sizing and move handles appear around each control.

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