Chapters 1 through 3 of this book explain the basics of building applications in Microsoft Access. But these three chapters can only touch the surface of what you can do to create powerful, easy-to-use applications using Microsoft Access. The following table shows where you can go from here for more information.
| Task | Resource |
| Explore further the power of Visual Basic. | Chapters 4 through 8. Also, for complete reference information about properties, actions, functions, events, objects, the Visual Basic language, and so forth, click Contents And Index on the Help menu, click the Contents tab, and then double-click the appropriate language reference book. |
| Read more on application development. | Chapters 9 through 15 include information on working with sets of records in Visual Basic, creating multiuser applications, communicating with other applications, using library databases and dynamic-link libraries, securing your application, and delivering your application. |
| Find out how to fill a list in a list box or combo box using a Visual Basic function. | Search the Help index for “combo boxes.” |
| Use the Column property of a list box or combo box to refer to the value in a column other than the bound column. | Search the Help index for “Column property.” |
| Use the SysCmd function to display a progress meter or your text in the status bar, to find out the information about Microsoft Access and its associated files, or to find out the status of the current object. | Search the Help index for “SysCmd function.” |
| See other examples of common features you may want to use in your application and the steps for creating them. | Open the Developer Solutions sample application, located in the Samples subfolder of your Office folder. |