There is no formula bar. Access is not a flawed implementation of Excel; it is
a DIFFERENT program with DIFFERENT features and kinds of controls. It's not a
spreadsheet, it's a relational database development application!
What you should do is learn how Access works, and work with it rather than
struggling to make it into "Excel on steroids":
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