Why Form 8655 Navigation 2024

Hello everyone and welcome to programming in Access 2013, the Advanced Course. My name is Steve Bishop and in this video, we're going to be talking about navigation control layouts. Now, with navigation controls, you have a little bit more flexibility in the way that you can present your menu buttons. So instead of just having the buttons running across the top like you do with tabs, you can actually put your navigation controls to the left or right-hand side of your subform. So let's go ahead and dig into this a little bit. I'm gonna hop out here and go into our database where we were working on form 2. I'm not going to do anything fancy with this. I'm not gonna have any real rhyme or reason to the way I do this. I just want to demonstrate how you can add these navigation controls to the left or right of your navigation. I'm gonna move this over a little bit because we are gonna be adding buttons to the left and adding them to the right here. The first thing that you're going to need to do is you're actually going to need to understand that this is really the three different components. We have the navigation control itself with the buttons, and then we've got the subform below here. Well, this is actually on a grid. If you go to the arrange tab, you'll see that you can start to split your grid up. You can add rows and columns. So you can split vertically, split horizontally, or you can insert, etc. What I'm going to go ahead and do here is I'm going to click on the main subform here so that it's outlined, and then I'm going to insert a row to the left. You'll see that pushes...