adding a new record in form view

I am pretty new to Access and am slowly teaching myself how to work it. I have successfully imported my tables previously in Excel over and created forms, but whne i go to add a new record in form view it will not allow me to do it. How do i change it so that I can add a new record by just opening the form i have
Please help!
Angie

Angie,
There could be a number of causes. The most obvious would be that the form
does not allow Additions. Open the form in design view. Open the forms
property sheet. Click on the data tab and make sure Allow Additions is set
to Yes. You will probably want to make sure that Allow Edits, Deletions, and
Filters are also set to Yes. If those are already set to Yes, then you need
to check to see what the record source for the form is (it's also on the
data tab).

--
Lynn Trapp
MS Access MVP
www.ltcomputerdesigns.com
Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm


"Angie Arcieri" wrote in message
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I am pretty new to Access and am slowly teaching myself how to work it. I
have successfully imported my tables previously in Excel over and created
forms, but whne i go to add a new record in form view it will not allow me
to do it. How do i change it so that I can add a new record by just opening
the form i have
Please help!
Angie

-----Original Message-----
I am pretty new to Access and am slowly teaching myself
how to work it. I have successfully imported my tables
previously in Excel over and created forms, but whne i go
to add a new record in form view it will not allow me to
do it. How do i change it so that I can add a new record
by just opening the form i have
Please help!
Angie

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Set the form properties to allow additions, allow edits,
and allow deletions. Then set it to data entry, so that
when you open your form its a blank slate. Save it
as "Form_Enternew" or somesuch, export the new form to the
same database, rename it "Form_View" and take off data
entry. You now have 2 identical forms, 1 for new entries,
one for viewing/editing. Now all you need is a menu to
link them both together. =)

Edm