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Part I: Basic Training
Figure 1-6:
Backstage
view —
new but
hauntingly
familiar to
those who
remember
the File
menu.
✓ Speaking of that ribbon bar that’s new to Access 2003 users, the Ribbon —
as Microsoft likes to refer to it — is now much more customizable. Using
the Options menu, available through Backstage view, you can create new
tabs, and customize existing ones by adding and reorganizing buttons on
the associated Ribbon groups. (More about this feature in this very chap-
ter — Chapter 1.)
✓ Office Themes make it easy to create visual uniformity within your data-
base, its reports and forms. Themes affect colors and fonts, and apply
consistent graphical elements, and are available throughout the Office
2010 suite, making it easy to give all your Office creations from Access,
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint the same look.
✓ Pre-built database templates, available through Backstage view, make it
easy to build a database with components that make sense for the kind
of data you’re dealing with. Use the Office online templates (see Figure
1-7 for the categories) and pick a template that suits your needs. The
secrets to this new feature are found right here in Chapter 1.
✓ Application Parts are, in essence, different aspects of your existing data-
bases that you can recycle for use in new ones. Already developed a
great form or query? Reuse it. Learn how in Chapter 7.
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