in the last few lessons you've seen many
ways to create and modify the design of
your forms to make them useful now let's
look at making them attractive let's do
that for the new orders form this is
done in layout view which you switch to
using the views group in the ribbon or
by right-clicking on the tab of the open
form the first thing we can do in layout
view is change the title area which is
called the form header and design view
this is the default icon the access puts
on all of the forms we can resize it
reposition it whatever we want to do I
want to replace it with our stores logo
so I'll delete it then use the logo
commands on the ribbon in the controls
command group now I just need to find
the picture I want to use I could use
one of my clipart files or other saved
pictures we had a logo specially made so
I'll use that one as far as adding a
little color and style to the form we
can choose between a preset format from
the auto format option or we can color
our own parts I'll choose a preset
format now I need a title that makes
sense I can give a form a special title
by clicking on the title itself or the
title commands on the ribbon now this is
not tied to the form name but it should
still makes sense I'll keep it simple
and name the form book order now I can
make this title appear however I want I
can change the font size let's see I
want it to be a little larger and now
I'll make the title Bowl to make it
stand out there
other options you can add to the title
area but I'll let you explore those on
your own now and the body of the form I
can also change a few things let's move
some things and resize some others to
move something just grab the form
component you want to move hold down the
left mouse button and drag and drop it
to a new location on the form to resize
highlight the object and drag to a new
size we can change the outlines and our
labels or the drop down boxes using the
line type line thickness
and lying color options that looks
pretty good now once we have it just how
we like we need to save the form an our
next lesson will focus on analyzing the
data in our database using sorts filters
queries and reports