Create a Great-Looking Product Form

Topic at a glance

Suppose you’ve stored information about your product line in the Products table in the Inventory database. If you want a fast, efficient way for you and your co-workers to enter inventory data, you can create a Product form. A form displays one record at a time, so it’s easy to see what to type and where to type it. To create the form quickly, use the Microsoft Access Form Wizard and then customize the form to make it even easier to work with.

To complete the steps in this topic   you need to have either Microsoft Office, Professional Edition or an individual copy of Microsoft Access installed. You also need to create a Products table by using the procedures in Move a Product List into Microsoft Access, or by using the Table Wizard. However, you can use the basic techniques in this topic to create customized forms for any Microsoft Access table.