Welcome back to our course on Access 2013.
In this section we’re going to take a look at the status bar which is right down at the
bottom of the Access 2013 workspace.
Now like many other aspects of Access 2013, the status bar can be customized.
But let’s take a look at what’s shown on it at the moment.
Now the Contact list form is still open and if you look at the status bar, down at the
bottom it says Datasheet View on the left.
On the right there are three buttons and these buttons enable us to switch between the views
of that particular form.
If I go to the Ribbon and click on the Views button, let me change to Form View.
I’m going to click now on Form View to make that into a regular Form View and what you’ll
see, no visible difference there but it now says Form View on the status bar.
Let’s try a different view.
Let’s try Layout View.
There was a small change.
You may have noticed there but note it says Layout View.
And then finally Design View says Design View down there.
Now a different way of switching between those is to use the buttons in the bottom right.
So first of all, this will normally tell you which view you’ve got applied and then it
will provide some buttons on the right to switch.
Now let me right click on the status bar and what you can see there is a Customize status
bar menu.
Now the very last thing on that menu is View shortcuts.
If I uncheck that option, look at the buttons at the right hand end of the Status Bar; they’re
no longer visible.
It doesn’t mean I can’t do those things.
It just means those buttons are not visible.
If I check it again the buttons become visible again.
The basic principle of the status bar; it’s really quite straightforward.
You have certain things you can show and basically you check or uncheck them to determine whether
they’re shown or not.
Let me give you another example.
At the moment, Filtered is not shown.
If I click it to show it, it’s checked but you didn’t see anything different on the
status bar.
Let me uncheck it again.
Nothing changes.
But let me now go back to the Home Tab and let me go back into Form View for this form,
Toggle Filter is now available as an option.
It’s enabled.
So if I click on Toggle Filter, look at the status bar.
It’s still empty.
Go back into Customizing and now check on Filtered and you’ll see the word Filtered
appeared.
Now how that works is this.
If I have Filtered unchecked, then whether the data are filtered or not, it will not
be shown on the status bar.
But if I have it checked as it is now, as I toggle up here on the Ribbon, look at the
status bar; toggle off not filtered, toggle on its filtered.
So what these options on the status bar do is to decide whether you show things or not.
They don’t generally change things.
They just determine whether the values of certain things are shown or not.
So that’s the status bar in Access 2013 and that’s it for
this section.