Create a data access page on your own
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You can use the steps in this topic to guide you through creating a data access page from start to finish. You'll use many of the steps to create every page. The others you'll use when you create a particular kind of page for example, one that requires grouping records by categories or calculating totals. You need to use only the steps that are relevant to the type of page that you're creating. For other tasks related to creating data access pages, ask the Answer Wizard.
Read an overview of what data access pages are and how they work.
Learn about grouping records on a data access page.
Learn about using data access pages for data entry.
Start your data access page
Display data, text, and totals on the data access page
Learn about displaying data, text, and totals in text boxes, labels, and other controls
Learn about using the field list to display data
Display data from a table or query
Display a title or other informational text
Calculate a total for one record
Calculate a total for a group of records
Get more information about text boxes, labels, and other controls
Sort or group the data in your data access page
Set the default sort order for records
Format, move, size, and align labels, text boxes, and other controls
Make the text in a label, text box, or other control bold, italic, or underlined
Move a text box or other control and its label
Change the size of a label, text box, or other control
View the data access page in Page view or Microsoft Internet Explorer
Publish a data access page to make it available to other users
Learn about sharing the database a data access page is connected to