Creating Data Access Pages from Scratch - Modifying Page Properties
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Changing Labels and formatting
One can go back to the design page and make further changes. This next picture shows how you may change the column name from au_lname to Last name. Clicking on au_lname you can access the element's properties (in this case the label), element being an element in the Microsoft DOM, and change its inner Text property as shown (montage of two windows).
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Changing a group of elements
You also have the flexibility to apply formatting to a group of elements as it was in earlier versions, for example, if you do make changes and they get somewhat misaligned you can apply alignment to a group of labels as shown.
Accessing the Page properties
If you were to highlight a data field as in the next picture (some formatting has already been changed for this picture after deleting some of the fields and their column names), and look at its properties, you can access the Page, the GroupLevel, Section, and the elements' properties as shown here. You may also incrementally save your design to have a different name so that you may come back later and make further changes.
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