Whats the best way to manipulate  data using a Form ??

I have a few forms and basic navigation and data manipulation I find are rubbish - cos I am rubbish at making it any better.
I have a customer form (layout style of form) and table, I set up 2 buttons (enter_query & execute_query) to retrieve specific details based on customer ID input by the user. If the specified ID is for the wrong customer I want a button or buttons that will navigate through the IDs one by one until the right customer is found. If it was a tabular form I could do it but can I manage this if the form is not ?
Once the data is retrieved what is the best way to manipulate and save it ? Can I create a button that has PL/SQL code to UPDATE that particular record or do you guys and girls use the SAVE icon ?
Finally, I can't work out how to get the right side of the form displayed it seems to miss off an inch or 2. The canvas editor shows the form properly, the window size is just a smidge bigger than the canvas. When the form is run, how can I make the display area for the R/H/S bigger ?
Thanks in advance.

Sorry - I had to read up on what a base table block was.
I think I am. In this particular form I have one block - a customer block which has its items pulled in from the customer table, no problems there, it works fine.
My problem is I need to make it as user friendly as possible, if the user inputs the wrong customer ID (or does not know their name) I want them to be able to scroll through the customer list using an up or down button.
When do you have the commit_form statement run, (the OK button) after every change or after a block of changes ? Commit writes the changes to the database giving other users access to that data right ?! How often should it be used ?

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