From the course: Microsoft Access: Forms and Reports

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 25,300 courses taught by industry experts.

Create a main menu

Create a main menu

From the course: Microsoft Access: Forms and Reports

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Create a main menu

“

- [Educator] Forms don't always have to interact with the data in your database. In fact, one of the most useful forms that you can add to an access database can simply act as the homepage or the main menu for the custom application that you're building. You can use this as a place to add buttons and capture user intent to help them navigate the system. When used appropriate these types of navigation centric forms can completely remove any need for your users to dig around in the navigation pane. You can control exactly what objects your users have access to and often more importantly what they don't have access to. In this movie, we're going to create a main menu that will help our end users navigate the Red30 Tech database. Then we'll add in some buttons that trigger macros and open up some of the forms that we've previously created. So let's get started by going to the create tab and creating a new form in design…

Contents