Re: Changing form
- From: John Vinson <jvinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 14:53:55 -0600
On Sun, 22 May 2005 04:03:12 GMT, "Greg Jesky"
<gfjesky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>This does bring to mind a general question-- -- If you have a fairly complex
>form and you change an underling table do you need to recreate the form from
>scratch or is there a general guideline as to when/what type changes to
>underling tables will require you to recreate forms.
>
Just to agree with and add to Rick and Jeff's comments: no, you do NOT
need to recreate the form. The form design mode is a *very* rich
visual programming environment; it's much easier to add a combo box,
change a textbox to a combo (just right mouseclick it and select
Change To), move controls around, etc. than it is to wipe it all out
and rebuild from scratch. Like Rick and Jeff, I rarely use the forms
wizard; once in a while if I just need a quick & dirty form for my own
use and don't care how it looks I will, but it's only a bit more work
to just create a new form, specify the table or query upon which it is
based, and pull fields from the field list onto the form or use the
toolbox. And when that's done, you have a form that looks the way YOU
want it to look, not how some automated process guesses you might
like.
John W. Vinson[MVP]
.
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