In this section, you will learn how to create forms using the wizard,become familiar with form views, insert data as a new record using aform, navigate and modify data in form view, create form headers andfooters, and use a form’s search facility. You will also learn how toadd existing fields to a form.
Once you have set up tables on a database and entered the relevantinformation into a Datasheet View, youwill be ready to create other objects on the database. If you don’t setup tables, you won’t have a foundation to create objects on. Enteringdata into a table is done in exactly the same way as you would in Excel2019, which we covered in the Identifying rows, columns, andcells section in
A form is used to enter information, just as youwould enter records into a table datasheet, and is typically created forend users who do not have permission to make changes to the tabledesign or field properties. It is a user-friendly way of entering datainto a table. It makes the job of the users of the database morepleasant when displaying, entering, and maintaining records. A tablestructure has to be set up prior to creating a form. When entering datainto a form, it is automatically updated to therelevant table.