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Password-protecting your database project guards against threats well known to you such as theft of the database or its objects such as tables, queries and forms by importation/exportation. To encrypt or decrypt a Microsoft Access database you need to open it in exclusive mode. WARNING: I recommend that you use a copy of your database in doing this as there is no remedy if you forget your password. Encrypting your database 1.       Launch Microsoft Access 2.       Go to file and click on open as shown below 3.       Navigate to your database file’s location and select it. Click on the arrow next to the OPEN command to see the options such as Open, Open Read Only etc. Select Open Exclusive. The database will now open in exclusive mode. 4.       To encrypt the database, go to file and click on encrypt with password. The following window will appear. Enter your desired memorable password, ve...

Introduction A classic go-to combo box makes record navigation in forms a breeze. A user doesn’t’ have to use the next, previous, last record and first record buttons to navigate through dozens or even hundreds of records stored in underlying tables. If you have watched my videos on my YouTube channel, then you’ll notice that almost every form in my projects has this nifty combo box. To navigate to a record all that a user needs to is to locate the record in the drop-down list and the record will be loaded on the form. Nonetheless, the go-to combo box is not a complete replacement of the aforementioned buttons; in fact, having a combination of both makes the user’s experience even much better. The process At this stage, you must have a form which writes data into an underlying table. Such a table can be a student details table with the following fields: StudentAdmNo , FirstName , LastName and Form . If you create a form using the Form Wizard based on this table, it should look like th...