Create and insert an unbound object on a form or report

1. Open a form in Design view or a report in Design view.
   
   
2. Click the Unbound Object Frame tool in the toolbox.
   
   
3. On the form or report, click where you want to insert the object.
   
   
4. In the Insert Object dialog box, click Create New if it's not already selected, and then in the Object Type box, click the object type you want to create.
   
   
5. Select the Display As Icon check box if you want the object to appear as an icon instead of as the object itself. Displaying an object as an icon can be helpful when an object contains supplementary information that doesn't have to be displayed. Displaying an object as an icon also uses significantly less disk space.
   
   
6. Click OK. Microsoft Access creates an unbound object frame.
   
   
7. Create the object by using the application that you chose in step 4, and then do one of the following:
   • If you created the object in place, click the form outside the bound object frame. If you click Exit on the File menu, you'll quit Microsoft Access.
     
     
   • If the object that you created opened in a separate window, click Exit on the File menu of the OLE server application. If you're prompted to update the document, click OK.

If you want to edit the object, double-click it.

Notes

• You can adjust the size and proportions of the object after you paste it.

  How?

• In many cases, you'll edit an unbound object from form or report Design view. If you want to be able to edit the object from Form view also, then set the Enabled property of the unbound object frame to Yes and the Locked property to No.