How to Use ActiveForm to Determine the Previous Form in Microsoft Access

In this Microsoft Access tutorial, I will show you how to use ActiveForm to identify the form that opened another form. You'll learn how to make a pop-up form recognize its caller using Screen.ActiveForm and change the background color of the calling form with a simple button click.

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