Hi all,
A visual learner here, I unfortunately, have used windows, and it’s GUI since it’s inception…
I now am trying to edit an existing contacts database that is for download on this website…
Furthermore, I want to change some of the fields to suit my needs, how do I do this, with the GUI and NOT use MySQL, Linus, HTML, VB or other coding??
i.e. can’t I just “right click” or “Ctrl-R Click” or something to get into the properties to change whatever I want, (Label, input, etc…)??
Thank you
Open the form for editing, not for input data: Right mouse click on the form and a context menue appears.
Now you see the form without data. Might be the form is created by a wizard so only clicking on a control will mark more than one control, special label controls and input controls are grouped by the wizard. mak only the control you need by CTRL+left mouseclick. Then right mouseclick and you could enter the properties of the control, of the form and something else.
Thanks for the response…
The “CTRL+left mouse click” worked great to select the obj.
It’s been a long time since I used Access, but I do remember that the text boxes, buttons, etc… all had separate names that linked to so-named text box, and often would be the same name as the text box, button, etc… e.i. coding…
So to that contact form, and that’s all it is at this point (just a form) downloaded and then opened in LO…
I want to change and add to said form…
Do I need to create a table first, or can I set everything up on the form, that I want to edit the named text boxes and buttons??
Sorry to waste your time, I figured it out, by playing with it…
I found that I couldn’t just double-click or right-click on the text box to get what I wanted (main properties)…
I found your method needs to be used, and perhaps I didn’t read your comment right, but when the Ctrl+left click to select said obj. then right-click to get the drop-down window, then click on the “control properties” to get to the text-box properties I wanted…
Thanks again…
Also: Have a look at the form navigator:
Form → Form Navigator
There you could see all names of all controls and could start editing of controls also.