Thank you very much! "Andrew Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Daryl Sawyer wrote: > >>I've got a simple "card catalog" system set up. We've got filing cabinets >>full of reports filed by report number. I've got a simple, flat database >>(report# is the key), a form for entering in data, a queary that shows the >>records that still need to be printed (until I have this totally >>implemented, I need to maintain the old, paper-based card file), and >>that's about it. >> >>The only thing I have left is to design a form that will enable the user >>to search for a record by address (without having to muck about with the >>queary interface--not a person to teach new tricks to). > You can use the search function available at the form, or the form filter > method. > > For the first look to form navigator bar, most likely at the bottom of > your form. You will see an icon for binoculars, named 'Find Record' ( DO > NOT confuse this with the icon for binoculars at the top of the form ), > click the icon and the record search box opens. It is fairly self > explanatory. > > For the second, again on the navigator bar click on the 'Form-Based > Filters' icon usually found third from the right ( it is picture of a form > with a funnel super-imposed over and slightly below it ). Click on this > and the conrols in your form all go blank, and a new toolbar opened with > three buttons on it ( Apply, Filter Navigator, Close) - you enter data > into any of the controls as you like, then select the Apply Filter icon on > the newly opened tool bat. > > Spend a few minutes working with these and you find that you are done, > now! > > HTH > > Drew
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