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Microsoft Access

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New to Access or need a refresher? This online course is designed for a beginner and includes intermediate and advanced topics to put you on the road to becoming a master with Microsoft Access.

Highlights:

40 practical tutorials.
Learn how to design tables properly and build relationships.
Create forms and reports and then modify the design.
Make simple and complex queries and create calculated fields.
Import information from other sources such as Excel.
Use VBA to create command buttons to open forms and reports, set properties, track modification dates, and more.

The application that is built has customers, services, invoices, and would be good for anyone in a service business such as architects, engineers, accountants, lawyers, electricians, plumbers, and even lawn mowers.

The power of Access really gets unleashed when you start adding VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) to your project - and it is not hard! While you may not consider yourself to be a programmer, or thought you'd ever be one, automation is covered in small steps that are easy to understand. You can learn how to take advantage of the great power of VBA with just a few lines of code that make sense.

Video tutorials are recorded in Microsoft Access 2013.

Once enrolled, our friendly support team and tutors are here to help with any course related inquiries.

CHOOSE A COURSE THAT SUITS YOUR STUDY STYLE

Basic

40 course lessons
Interactive tutorial
1 coaching hour included

$49

Access Basics

Import

Navigate

Query

Review

Data Types

Relationships

Forms

Quick Access Toolbar

Reports

Complex Query for Grouped Report

Create a complex query to be used as the source for a grouped report.

Creating Reports in Access

Learn how to create a new report and fix a broken report.

Design Report from Scratch

Create a report from scratch using Report Design, add field to Record Source and align controls.

Group and Sort

Learn how to add grouping and sorting to a report to order information.

Modify Relationship Properties to Show All Records

Learn how to change report Record Source to show all records.

Report View, Design View, Layout View and Print Preview

Identify how to switch between different views such as Report View, Design View, Layout View and Print Preview.

Calculated Controls and Control Names

Learn calculation to Sum Field in Group Footer/Header, Page Header/Footer, or Report Header/Footer and calculation to get percent of a total in another control.

Page Breaks and Page Setup

Identify Page Setup options and learn how to force a new page between sections of a second grouping.

Back Color, Alternate Back Color and Themes

Choose and customize themes for forms, animate Command Buttons and define an alternate back color so that rows will display in alternating colors.

Running Sum and Hide Duplicates

Define a Running Sum, hide duplicate information and copy formats with the Format Painter.

Repeat Sections, Show or Hide Continued Label

Learn how to Repeat Section on the next page so you can see the group value that detail continues from, and use VBA to add a Continued label to group header on a report.

Change Sort to Group, Set Default View to Print Preview

Change sort to group using the Group Sort and Total pane, and change the Default View of a report to Print Preview.

Hide Sections and Controls, Key Fields

Learn how to hide sections and controls on a report, such as key fields, when you don't want them to show.

Page Header, Page Numbers, Date & Time, Report Caption

Create a textbox to show the date and time a report was printed, page number, and total pages at the top of each page.