Create a form with more than one page (screen)

1. Open the form in Design view.
   
   
2. Click the Page Break tool in the toolbox.
   
   
3. Click the form where you want to place the page break. Place the page break above or below a control to avoid splitting data in that control.

   Microsoft Access marks the page break on the left border of the form with a short dotted line.

   Note   If you want each page to be the same size, and each window to show only one page at a time, design the form so that each page break is an equal distance from the other. You can do this by positioning the page break controls with the vertical ruler.

4. Double-click the form selector to open the property sheet, and click Current Page in the Cycle property box. When the Cycle property is set to Current Page, you can't press the TAB key to move between pages.
   
   
5. Remove the vertical scroll bar by setting the ScrollBars property to Horizontal Only or Neither.
   
   
6. Switch to Form view to test the form and size it so you can only see one page at a time. You can press the PAGE DOWN or PAGE UP keys to move between pages.

Notes

• You may also want to set other properties in Design view. For example, you may want to set the BorderStyle property to Thin so that the form can't be sized, and you may want to set the MinMaxButtons property to None so that the form doesn't have Minimize and Maximize buttons. Also, you might want to add a command button to each page that you can use to move the focus to the next or previous page. The Employees (page break) form in the Northwind sample database has an example of this type of command button. To view this form, open the Northwind database in your Office folder's Samples folder and then open the Employees (page break) form in Design view.
  
  
• A page break is active in Form view only when the DefaultView property of the form is set to Single Form.
  
  
• For forms used in Form view, a page break marks where the form will scroll to when PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN is pressed. For printed forms, a page break marks the start of a new page within a section. To start a page at the beginning of a section, use the section's ForceNewPage property.