Find Selections by Your Favorite Artist

Now, if you want to hear something by your favorite artist, you can search your database quickly for a list of that artist’s selections. Use the Filter by Form button to narrow your search.

Filter by Form button

On the Music Collection switchboard, click Enter/View Recordings. Click the Filter by Form button, and then select the details you want to search for.

Remove Filter button

Review all records after filtering   Each time you begin a search, click the Remove Filter button first, so that Microsoft Access looks through all the records in the database. Filter by Selection button Find all works by a particular artist or all albums in a particular category   In the Recordings form, select the data in the field that contains the information you want (for example, “Chopin,” in the Artist field), and then click the Filter by Selection button. Filter by Form button Want to find data that meets either of two criteria?   For example, to find recordings by either Beethoven or Chopin, click the Filter by Form button, click the field that contains Beethoven’s name, click the arrow that appears to the right of that field, and then select Beethoven’s name from the list of artists. Click the Or tab and then click the arrow that appears to the right of the field that contains Chopin’s name. Select Chopin’s name from the list of artists and then click the Apply Filter button.

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