Microsoft Access
Creating subforms exercise
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This Microsoft Access CREATING SUBFORMS exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl ACCESS INTRODUCTION FOR DEVELOPERS course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Owners and Pets Form

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-347.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Create a form based on the Owner table using the AutoForm: Columnar wizard, naming it OwnersOfPetsMainForm.
3) Create a second form based on the Pet table using the AutoForm: Tabular wizard, naming it OwnersOfPetsSubForm.
4) In design view, drag the sub form onto the main form.  Add buttons and text boxes with expressions so that the result resembles the example below:
Exercise screen-shot 740 Use the control wizard when adding your command buttons
5) Close the form saving the changes.

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