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Form Design view

Form Design view

- [Instructor] In addition to the Layout View, you can edit forms in a view called Design View, which will give you full control over the placement and styling of every element on your form. I want to spruce up our customer orders form just a little bit more so that it ties into the branding of Red30 Tech. Specifically, I want to adjust some settings up here in this header section. I want to change the background color to a more neutral color. I want to change the styling of this button, so it doesn't have this dated appearance here with this kind of gradient on it. Then I'm also going to change the title and add in a logo. We can make all of those changes by taking our view button, clicking the bottom portion of it, and then choosing Design View. In Design View, we have similar tabs to what we saw in Layout View. I have a new contextual tab called Form Design that contains the same control objects that we can add into…

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