MS Access 2010 Training

Course Description

You will improve and customize tables, queries, forms and reports, and share Access data with other applications.

Target Student:

This course is designed for individuals who wish to learn intermediate-level operations of the Microsoft® Office Access® program. The target student may also include individuals whose job responsibilities include creating databases, tables, and relationships, as well as working with and revising intermediate-level queries, forms, and reports. It also introduces them to integrating Access data with other applications such as Microsoft Office Word or Excel.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success, we recommend that you first take one of our ntroductory courses, such as Microsoft® Office Access® 2010 : Level 1, or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• streamline data entry and maintain data integrity.
• join tables to retrieve data from unrelated tables.
• create flexible queries to display specified records, allow for user-determined query criteria, and modify data using queries.
• improve forms.
• customize reports to organize the displayed information and produce specific print layouts.
• share data between Access and other applications.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Controlling Data Entry

Topic 1A: Constrain Data Entry Using Field Properties
Topic 1B: Establish Data Entry Formats for Entering Field Values
Topic 1C: Create a List of Values for a Field

Lesson 2: Joining Tables

Topic 2A: Create Query Joins
Topic 2B: Join Tables with No Common Fields
Topic 2C: Relate Data Within a Table

Lesson 3: Creating Flexible Queries

Topic 3A: Set the Select Query Properties
Topic 3B: Retrieve Records Based on Input Criteria
Topic 3C: Create Action Queries

Lesson 4: Improving Forms

Topic 4A: Restrict Data Entry in Forms
Topic 4B: Organize Information with Tab Pages
Topic 4C: Add a Command Button to a Form
Topic 4D: Create a Subform
Topic 4E: Display a Summary of Data in a Form
Topic 4F: Change the Display of Data Conditionally

Lesson 5: Customizing Reports

Topic 5A: Organize Report Information
Topic 5B: Format Reports
Topic 5C: Control Report Pagination
Topic 5D: Summarize Report Information
Topic 5E: Add a Subreport to an Existing Report
Topic 5F: Create a Mailing Label Report

Lesson 6: Sharing Data Across Applications

Topic 6A: Import Data into Access
Topic 6B: Export Data to Text File Formats
Topic 6C: Export Access Data to Excel
Topic 6D: Create a Mail Merge

Course duration: 1 Day

MS Access 2010 Training Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.