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I need to settup a database for inventory control purposes. I really like the free app that microsoft offers ("Desktop Product inventory database") , but I am unable to open the forms in design view and I am unable to export these forms to another database. please advise what I need to do in order to open the forms in design view.thank you very much in advance, Nathaniel

database link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ctndirectdownload.aspx?AssetID=TC102483123&Application=AC&Version=14&Result=2

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  • these might help you: -http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=1153601 -http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154454 – Rahul Nov 03 '12 at 08:47

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Many of the Access 2010 sample databases, including Inventory, are set up as web databases. They do not have a design mode that matches the "normal" Access forms.

See: MS Access (2010) Enable Design View

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  • You can still modify the forms, but you have to use layout mode. As noted, this is due to the template being a WEB database. You can see a web database in Action in the following video of mine in which I swtich to running the application 100% in a web browser. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU4mH0jPntI – Albert D. Kallal Nov 03 '12 at 21:36