Microsoft Access 2007 Fundamentals

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Learn how Microsoft's powerful database can help you store and manage information you've collected about your business, home, or community.

Learn how Microsoft's powerful and award-winning database can help you manage, store, search, analyze, and display important information you've collected about your business, home, community, or any other entity. In this practical and project oriented hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to create tables filled with fields and records. You'll build relationships between the tables to eliminate redundancies and slash data entry time. You'll discover how to achieve huge reductions in data entry errors by setting default values, creating validation rules, and building input masks. You'll find out how to make your database more user-friendly with custom data entry forms, smart lists, and other sophisticated controls. You'll learn how to retrieve exactly what you need from your database with powerful queries and reports, and you'll even start automating routine tasks with labor-saving macros.

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This course has a 3 month duration. You'll complete comprehensive lessons, quizzes and assignments before submitting your final exam at the end of the course to achieve your certificate. Courses must be completed within the 3 month access period.

A Microsoft Access database is made up of seven interrelated components: tables, fields, records, forms, queries, reports, and macros. In today's lesson, you'll become familiar with each of these components and--perhaps more importantly--you'll learn how each component can help you successfully collect and manage a wide variety of business, personal, or scientific data. And you'll get hands-on experience building tables; creating fields; and manipulating records.

Today, you're going to learn how to take advantage of a variety of powerful customization options that will help you simplify the process of adding data to an Access table. You'll get hands-on experience with validation rules, default values, and input masks—time-saving tools that will improve your productivity while increasing the accuracy and reliability of the data you collect.

This lesson will literally slash the amount of time you spend performing data entry tasks. You'll deftly sidestep an issue that often plagues Access novices: how to avoid typing and re-typing the same pieces of information over and over again in each of the many tables that make up your database. Today, you'll discover the powerful and time-saving secret of table relationships.

In this lesson, we'll give your database a professional makeover. Your database will achieve new levels of attractiveness and sophistication with the introduction of powerful forms. You'll find that forms make it faster, easier, and more pleasant for you to review, add, edit, or remove the information in your tables.

Today, you'll embellish your forms with powerful custom controls like buttons and combo boxes. These custom controls can help you automate tasks you might otherwise find difficult or time-consuming to carry out manually. As a result, you'll work at greater efficiencies and with fewer opportunities for error.

One reason we create a database is so we have a place to store information that we've collected. We store data in a database because we know that we will need to review that information again. By squirreling the data away today, we give ourselves future opportunities to review, search, analyze, sort, and subtotal that information as needed. Today, you'll discover how to use an Access query to scan a vast collection of data and retrieve only the exact pieces of information that you require.

In today's lesson, you'll overcome all those thorny query issues that often stump both beginning and advanced Access users. You'll learn how to scan the entirety of your database for a single word (or even a tiny word fragment) with pinpoint precision. You'll find out how to seek out a range of dates or numbers instead of placing all your bets on a futile and time-consuming search for a single value. And if you ever find yourself with a better understanding of what you don't want to see than what you do, you'll understand how to perform a reverse query.

In a well-designed database, information will be evenly distributed across multiple tables. The advantages of this distributed approach are too numerous to elucidate here, but the approach does raise one important question: is there any way to take all of the information that has been scattered across several tables and bring it together in one place? Fortunately, there is a simple solution. Today, you'll receive ample opportunities to try your hand at combining information from an assortment of tables into a single pool of data.

If you really want to show off the data in your database, you'll want to showcase it with a report. A report will help you organize and format your data, making it more accessible and more attractive. There really is only one surefire way to understand what a report is and what it can do for you: you'll just have to create one. And that's exactly what you're going to do in today's lesson.

In our last lesson, you learned how to convert a table filled with raw information into a handsome, well-organized report suitable for printing. But what if you want to create a report that only shows some, instead of all, of the information contained within a table? Is that even possible? You'll find out in today's lesson.

Access comes with a number of pre-formatted reports designed to meet just about any conceivable need. But there will be rare occasions when you want to produce a report that is a little, well, different. A report that goes beyond the norm. A report that communicates with its reader in a new and unique way. In today's lesson, you'll learn how you can use the Report Design tool to whip up your very own custom reports from scratch.

In this, our final lesson, you'll learn all about Access macros. An Access macro can automate just about any database activity you can imagine, from running queries to printing reports to opening and closing forms or tables. However, a macro can perform these activities at a much higher rate of speed and with far more accuracy than you or I could ever manage to muster. This is one of the most popular and eye-opening lessons in the course, covering a fascinating topic you won't want to miss.

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You'll have 3 months access to your course. In that time you are free to study at your own pace. The course duration is 24 hours.

Online learning is a flexible way to study that fits around your schedule, giving you the freedom to learn at your own pace from anywhere in the world. You'll have 3 months to complete the course and can take the multiple-choice questions and final exam whenever it suits you.

If you need help, you can contact us anytime. You can also join the discussion area where you can interact with other students. The discussion area for each lesson is open for the entire duration of the course.

Of course! We offer a 7-day money back guarantee. As long as you haven't completed the course, you can get a full refund within 7 days of enrolling.

We do not offer extensions or transfers for this self-paced course. However, you will have 3 months to complete the course, and if you need to cancel within the first 10 days of enrolment, we offer a money back guarantee.

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I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your having designed a course that was simple, clear, straightforward, and at the same time, comprehensive.

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I needed to learn enough to use an existing database and the lessons were just in time as I am working through the project. The lessons were extremely detailed and this was exactly what I needed for a 67-year-old doing this kind of thing for the first time!

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I thoroughly enjoyed the course. I tried learning Access 2007 on my own, and although I got quite far on my own, this course really showed me how little I really knew! Thank you so much. I can put the things I learned into practice immediately - actually, I already have!

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