order forms by date record created

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Annie1904

I enter my records on a form. I also use the form to retrieve individual
records. I have a combo box to look up specific records, but sometimes I
just want to flick through (using fwd/back keys) to see those most recently
created. I can't seem to get them to appear in date order.

I have a field 'Date received' in both the table and form and this is the
field I would like to order my forms by. There's an 'order by' option in the
form properties box. There's no drop-down arown, or build function next to
this - what do I type in? Or is there another way to do this?
 
Create a query that sorts the data as you want it, and use the query as the
RecordSource for the form, rather than using the table.
 
Thanks, Douglas, this did work. A.

Douglas J. Steele said:
Create a query that sorts the data as you want it, and use the query as the
RecordSource for the form, rather than using the table.
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