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The Open dialog box appears.<br />

To choose the data box to display:<br />

Administrator<br />

1. Right-click in a box or frame, then click Field.<br />

The Field properties appears.<br />

2. From the data source tree, select the field to<br />

display.<br />

3. In the Open dialog box, choose a database with<br />

an .mdb file extension, and then click Open.<br />

The Form Properties dialog box reappears.<br />

The CS_Demo database is shown below.<br />

A data source tree appears in the left side of the<br />

Form Properties Database dialog box,<br />

displaying the fields and their tables.<br />

4. Click OK.<br />

The database is associated with the form.<br />

3. Click OK.<br />

The field data is displayed in the box.<br />

If you use this method with a framed box, the box<br />

label will remain unchanged. If you want to use the<br />

field name as the box label, you can do it in one step<br />

as follows:<br />

1. Right-click in a framed box.<br />

2. Select the field name from the list at the<br />

bottom of the right-click menu.<br />

The frame receives the field name and the data<br />

is displayed in the box.<br />

Selecting the Data to Display<br />

You indicated the source of the data to display on<br />

the form, but the form is still blank. To see the data,<br />

you need to indicate what data to show in each box.<br />

You can use the Box Properties dialog box, as<br />

described in “Setting Box Properties” on page 44.<br />

252•Creating and Editing Forms<br />

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Selecting a Database

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