Forms Sub-menu

Contains commands for activate form design mode, open control wizards and insert form controls in your document.

To access this command...

Choose Tools - Forms.

Design Mode

Enable or disable form design mode.

Control Wizards

Enable or disable control wizards.

Control Properties

Opens a dialogue box for editing the properties of a selected control.

Form Properties

In this dialogue box you can specify, among others, the data source and the events for the whole form.

Form Navigator

Opens the Form Navigator. The Form Navigator displays all forms and sub-forms of the current document with their respective controls.

Activation Order

Opens the Tab Order dialogue box so you can modify the order in which control fields get the focus when the user presses the tab key.

Add Field:

Opens a window in which you can select a database field to add to the form or report.

Open in Design Mode

Opens forms in Design Mode so that the form can be edited.

Automatic Control Focus

Enable or disable Automatic Control Focus