Form Question Please

[TotallyConfused]

What does it mean when you open a form that collects data and it has a pencil
icon on the upper left hand corner when you enter data? How do you enable
that pencil icon on the form? Thank you in advance for any help with this.

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

The little pencil simply means that the record is what we call in MS access
as a dirty record.

This simply means that the record you were viewing has been modified, and
access is ready to write that reocrd (form data) back to disk the table that
the form is based on. the writing of data will occur when you leave the
record, or simply close the form


If you move to a record and view that record but do not modify anything on
the record, you'll not see that pencil appear.