Buttons and Microsoft Access

On this blog, we’ve been talking a lot about the powerful tools available to MS Access Database Developers and Consultants, so far we haven’t talked about buttons yet. The versatility of buttons in Access is amazing and contributes significantly to a developer’s ability to create functional and engaging menus, forms and reports. At their simplest buttons can be used to navigate through all the records in a table when displayed through a form, or they can run macros filled with a several commands. Most users are familiar with buttons, so adding them into menus makes it a lot easier to create functional UI’s.

The button command wizard is great for creating buttons that perform actions, such as opening reports, printing reports and a variety of other tasks. Although advanced database developers and consultants can configure the effects of button through the properties tab and this allows them to do even more with them. Without a functional UI most databases would be clunky and difficult to use for new users and even some intermediate users, and one of the most important aspects of a functional UI is appropriate use of buttons and not something any good MS Access Database Developer or Consultant should forget.