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Open a text document or a spreadsheet and insert the controls such as push buttons and list boxes. In the properties dialogs of the controls, you can define what data the forms should display.</paragraph> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Form With the Form Wizard</paragraph> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1061E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In %PRODUCTNAME, you can create a new form using the <link href="text/shared/autopi/01090000.xhp">Form Wizard</link>:</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10632" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new form.</paragraph> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10636" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon.</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Use Wizard to Create Form</emph>.</paragraph> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10645" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Form Manually</paragraph> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1064C" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new form.</paragraph> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10650" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon.</paragraph> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 66cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Form in Design View</emph>.</paragraph> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1065F" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">A new text document opens. Use the <link href="text/shared/02/01170000.xhp">Form Controls</link> to insert form controls.</paragraph> 70cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="note" id="par_idN10670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">Click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon to access all forms that were created from within the current database window. In addition, you can use the <emph>Form Controls</emph> icons to add database form controls to any Writer or Calc document, but these documents will not be listed in the database window. </paragraph> 71cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 72cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/shared/explorer/database/main.xhp#base"/> 73cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp#database_main"/> 74cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 75cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 76cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 77