If you get the new access scripts from the HJ page, this is explained in
the documentation, msaccess.doc in the tecnotes\enu folder, basically, the
new scripts provide control+shift+b to bring up the toolbox and once you
select a control, it is placed on the form in the selected area.
Joe.
At 05:01 13/01/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who's been successful at designing
>forms in Microsoft Access. In particular, how did you add fields when in
>the design view for a new form. I can get as far as choosing the Field
>List button from the appropriate toolbar and selecting a list of fields
>from the resulting list box. However every manual and online help I read
>says that the fields selected from this list must be dragged and dropped
>onto the form. Because these fields are in what JFW treats as a list box I
>can't find a way to move off of it and back onto the form to accomplish
>this and haven't found a similar method to achieve the same result from the
>keyboard.
>
>I'm getting to this point by first having defined at least one table with
>fields in my data base. Next I choose the Form tab from the main Access
>window. From there I choose New and in the subsequent dialog make certain
>that Design View is selected in the list box and press tab once to select
>my table as the source for fields on the form.
>
>There may be a way to accomplish this from behind the scenes in Access that
>I'm not familiar with. I'm not a programmer and am doing this from the
>standard user interface of the Access 97 program using JFW 3.2.
>
>Kelly
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>
Joseph Dunn
Adaptive Technology Specialist
Royal Society for the Blind of South Australia Inc.
230 Pirie Street
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