In the last few lessons, you have 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 opened form.
The first thing we can do in Layout View is change the title area, which is called the
Form Header in Design View.
This is the default icon that Access puts on all the forms.
We can resize it, reposition it...whatever we want to do.
I want to replace it with our store's logo.
So, I'll delete it, then use the Logo command on the Ribbon in 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 pre-set format from the Auto Format option, or we
can color our own parts.
I'll choose a pre-set format.
Now I need a title that makes sense.
I can give the Form a special title by clicking on the title itself or the Title command on
the Ribbon...now, this is not tied to the form NAME, but it should still make 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.I want it to be a little larger.
And now I'll make the title bold to make it stand out.
There are other options you can add to the title area but I'll let you explore those
on your own.
Now, in 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 on our labels or drop down boxes using the Line Type, Line
Thickness and Line color.
Once we have it just how we like it, we need to save the form.
In our next lesson we'll focus on analyzing the data in our database, using sorts, filters,
queries, and reports.