8850 Form Ins 2016-2023

Hello everyone and welcome to programming in Access 2023 my name is Steve Bishop today's video is a how-to video and this particular topic is very common requests that I get from not only my youtube channel but also from some of the forums that I frequent and this particular question comes from Katey sin Lau and he asks can you show me how to display PDF files in an access forum and that's a very good question a lot of times what we want to do is display the contents of a file to our users actually within a forum and luckily for us there is a special component there's a special control that we can put on our forms that allows us to display just about any type of file including PDF files and I'm going to show you the method of how you can do that today alright so let's go ahead and back out and go into our database and the first thing I'm going to do is going to go to the create tab and I'm going to create a new form and I'm going to go right into the design of the form I'm not going to do a wizard or anything now I'm going to make this nice and large because we're going to be displaying the entire contents of a phial and you probably want to make sure also that you making it large individuals that that the application may have because what's going to happen is when you open up a file inside of access access is not actually the application that's opening the file instead the default program the default application that is used to view that file will open up a window inside of your form so especially with...