Course Overview
Welcome to the first part of our Microsoft Access 365 courseware. Access is Microsoft’s flagship database application that allows you to create and manage databases for all sorts of different purposes. This version of Access incorporates a few new features to better visualize data and support new data types, as well as interface and workflow improvements.
This course is intended to help all novice computer users get up to speed quickly. This manual will also help more experienced users who have little to no experience with Microsoft Access and databases in general.
What you’ll learn
By the end of this course, users should be comfortable with navigating the Microsoft Access interface, creating a new database from scratch, querying a database, generating reports, sharing data, and much more.
Requirements
- This manual assumes that the user understands the basics of using a Windows-based computer. Students should be comfortable using the keyboard, mouse, and Start menu. Students should also be comfortable navigating their computer in order to create and manage files and folders. No previous experience with other versions of Microsoft Access is necessary.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 8 Lessons
- 1 Day
- Topics8
- 1.1Getting Started with Access In the first lesson, students will get comfortable opening and creating basic databases, as well as creating simple forms. They will also become familiar with the various objects that make up a database and how to use database templates.
- 1.2Working with Table Data During this lesson, students will learn various ways to work with table data, how to modify data within a table, as well as how to sort and filter those records. We will also take a look at creating lookup fields to enhance the integrity of your data.
- 1.3Query a Database Next, we go over queries and how they can be used to retrieve data from multiple tables (or other queries) in your database. Creating basic queries, as well as adding sorting, grouping, filtering, and calculation components to a query are also covered.
- 1.4Create Advanced Queries Then, we go over creating parameter, action, find unmatched and duplicate queries, as well as the various ways that you can summarize data in Access.
- 1.5Generate Reports In this lesson, students will learn about reports and how they are used to display data in a more readable fashion. They will become comfortable creating basic reports, as well as adding controls to them. Also, changing the theme that a report uses, and preparing a report to be printed are covered.
- 1.6Design a Relational Database Students will become familiar with the planning processes that must be followed to successfully create a database. The fundamentals of database design with a focus on relational databases, how to create tables, manage fields, and create relationships between fields in various tables are also taught.
- 1.7Joining Tables There are many ways that you can join tables and their contained data. In this lesson, creating basic query joins, as well as joining tables that do not have a common field are covered. Students will become comfortable working with self-joins, subdatasheets and, also creating basic subqueries using SQL.
- 1.8Importing and Exporting Data In the final lesson, the many ways that you can share Access data with other applications and export into a variety of different formats are covered. Exporting data as Excel files and text files, creating a basic mail merge, as well as importing data into Access are also covered.
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