Microsoft Access 2007: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction

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You will learn how to

• Utilize Microsoft Access 2007 to design robust database applications
• Apply Form, Table, Report and Query wizards to quickly build database applications
• Create and integrate macros into your applications
• Quickly modify forms and reports with selective filtering, sorting and grouping
• Implement advanced Access reporting features
• Link to SharePoint and SQL Server data systems

Course benefits
Today's database solutions begin on the desktop with Excel, naturally evolve to Access and ultimately to enterprise-wide applications. Microsoft Access 2007 is a powerful visual tool with which to design and develop these applications.

This hands-on course provides an in-depth view of the features and functionality of Access 2007. You learn to upsize Excel spreadsheets, develop and support robust Access systems, manipulate and query data, develop forms and design sophisticated data analysis reports.

Who should attend
This course is valuable for anyone who needs to manipulate, analyze or report on data. Familiarity with databases or macros is helpful.

Hands-on training
Throughout this course, you gain real-world experience building components of a database inventory system. Extensive hands-on exercises include:

• Building a Microsoft Access database
• Establishing indexes and data relationships
• Integrating pictures within your database
• Using Form and Query wizards
• Linking data among Access tables and with other programs
• Creating buttons to run macros
• Automating tasks with macros
• Creating preformatted and custom reports
• Developing complex Access reports
• Customizing report groups and totals
• Optimizing the database with Performance Analyzer

Course content
MICROSOFT ACCESS 2007 OVERVIEW

• Discovering the interface
• Browsing by category in Help
• Quick data functions in reports
• Exploring the task-based ribbon
• Overview of database concepts
• Databases and their contents
• Flat file and relational databases
• The fundamentals of database design
• Tables, records and fields
• Implementing database normalization
• Ordering schemes
• Indexes
• Setting compound primary keys

BUILDING A RELATIONAL DATABASE WITH ACCESS

• Defining the requirements
• Eliciting user needs and wants
• Designing the data model
• Creating an Access database system
• Access tables, fields, indexes
• Table relationships
• Modifying field functionality with properties
• Integrating internal and external data
• Customizing forms with the Layout View
• Attaching or importing existing tables
• Designing a friendly user interface
• Form controls and properties

QUERYING RELATIONAL DATA

• Query types and elements
• Defining queries
• Choosing fields in the Design View
• Select, Action and Parameter queries
• Developing queries
• Query wizards
• Expressions in queries
• Refining data output with sorting and filtering

ACCESS REPORTS FOR DATA ANALYSIS

• Using Report wizards
• Generating quick reports
• Tabular and column report types
• Visually enhancing your presentation with conditional formatting
• Exploiting formulas and expressions in reports
• Sorting out groups and totals
• Modifying the standard report formats
• Hiding data detail in summary reports
• Elements of effective custom reports
• Adjusting report controls
• Publishing to PDF and XPS formats

TASK AUTOMATION WITH MACROS

• Designing effective macros
• Point-and-click
• Debugging tips
• Macro style guidelines
• Running a macro from events
• Event-driven programming
• Linking forms and reports
• Associating macros with controls to respond to user-triggered events
• Triggering a macro from a hyperlink

ACCESS AS A MULTIUSER FRONT-END

• Data separation in Access
• Creating a non-data ACCDB
• Strategically placing your data
• Linking to SharePoint and SQL Server
• The ODBC connectivity standard
• Utilizing SharePoint and SQL Server data within Access
• Enabling users to link to SharePoint lists

ADVANCED DATABASE SETTINGS

• Condensing and refining data with PivotTables
• Automatic database compacting
• Analyzing application performance
• Encrypting and password protecting your database

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