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In the last few lessons, you have seen many
ways to create and modify the design of your

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forms to make them useful.

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Now, let's look at making them attractive.

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Let's do that for the New Orders form.

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This is done in Layout View, which you switch
to using the Views group in the Ribbon, or

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by right clicking on the tab of the opened
form.

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The first thing we can do in Layout View is
change the title area, which is called the

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Form Header in Design View.

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This is the default icon that Access puts
on all the forms.

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We can resize it, reposition it...whatever
we want to do.

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I want to replace it with our store's logo.

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So, I'll delete it, then use the Logo command
on the Ribbon in Controls command group.

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Now I just need to find the picture I want
to use...I could use one of my clipart files

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or other saved pictures.

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We had a logo specially made so I'll use that
one.As far as adding a little color and style

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to the form We can choose between a pre-set
format from the Auto Format option, or we

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can color our own parts.

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I'll choose a pre-set format.

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Now I need a title that makes sense.

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I can give the Form a special title by clicking
on the title itself or the Title command on

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the Ribbon...now, this is not tied to the
form NAME, but it should still make sense.

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I'll keep it simple and name the form Book
Order.

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Now I can make this title appear however I
want.

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I can change the font size.I want it to be
a little larger.

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And now I'll make the title bold to make it
stand out.

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There are other options you can add to the
title area but I'll let you explore those

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on your own.

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Now, in the body of the form I can also change
a few things.

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Let's move some things and resize some others.

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To move something, just grab the form component
you want to move, hold down the left mouse

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button, and drag and drop it to a new location
on the form.

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To resize, highlight the object and drag to
a new size.

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We can change the outlines on our labels or
drop down boxes using the Line Type, Line

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Thickness 
and Line color.

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Once we have it just how we like it, we need
to save the form.

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In our next lesson we'll focus on analyzing
the data in our database, using sorts, filters,

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queries, and reports.