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The Navigation Pane and a Navigation Form

A Navigation Form presents a clean, tabbed, app-like main menu — hiding the raw Navigation Pane from anyone who shouldn't be poking around the design directly.

Field Notes: A Friendlier Front Door

Goal

$Build a tabbed Navigation Form as a database's main menu.$

$Showing the raw Navigation Pane to end users is confusing and risks accidental changes to a carefully built design.$

Choose a tab layout

Do this

Go to Create, then Navigation, and choose a tab layout style, such as "Horizontal Tabs" or "Vertical Tabs, Left."

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