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Work with embedded macros - Microsoft Access Tutorial
From the course: Access Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft)
Work with embedded macros
- [Instructor] Macro objects can be saved into the navigation pane, as we saw with the about macro, but they can also get embedded directly inside of interactive elements that you place on your forms. This can keep your navigation pane from getting cluttered up with lots of single purpose macros that you don't want people activating outside of their intended context. This works similarly to the embedded queries that we saw with reports and can help you isolate macros to the specific objects that they were made for. Way back when we created the customer orders form, You'll recall that we used the Form Wizard. This'll set up the link to the order details form where we can find a specific customer on this form, click the button, and it shows me the related information of the orders in a separate form. Now, if you wanted to go back to the customer orders form, you need to close this tab. Now, it's not hard to do by any means, but it is an inconsistency in the way that users work with…
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