“Layout View” (1)

“Layout view” is new in “Access” 2007.
This view allows us to change the layout of the “Form”, while viewing the data in the table.
You can then use this information as a guide for formatting the layout of your fields.
To open a “Form” in “Layout View”, right-click the “Form” in the “Navigation Pane” and select “Layout View”.
Each entry in the lower part of the window, the detail section, is called a “control”.

There are different types of “Controls”.
So you have in the picture above, the “label” and the “box” control.
At the top of the “Form”, we find the “header section”.
Each section, each “Control” and the “Form” itself, has its own characteristics.
To change the properties of an object, select the object and click the F4 key on your keyboard.
The object that was selected is displayed at the top in the “Properties window”.

The properties in the “Properties window” are divided into several tabs.
Select the “All” tab where all attributes for the selected “Control” are shown.
If you wish to change the properties of another “Control”, select it in the “Form”.
You can immediately see that the name changes in the upper section of the “Properties window”.

When we click on the downward pointing arrow next to the top of the “Properties Window”, we can choose a different “Control” from the “Form”.

We can also add fields in the “Layout view”.
Select the “Format” tab in the “Ribbon” and click the “Add Existing Fields” button.
This opens a list of fields from the table on which our “Form” is based.
Double-click or click and drag, the field you want to add to the “Form”.

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