Microsoft Access 2010: Intermediate

Course Overview

You have the basic skills needed to work with Microsoft Office Access 2010 databases, including creating and working with Access tables, relationships, queries, forms, and reports. But so far, you have been focusing only on essential database user skills. In this course, you will consider how to maintain data consistency, how to customise database components, and how to share Access data with other applications.

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Related Courses

• Microsoft Access 2010: Introduction for Beginners
• Microsoft Access 2010: Advanced Level 3
• Microsoft Access 2010: Fundamentals
• Microsoft Access 2007/2010: Advanced
• Microsoft Access 2010: Specialised
• Microsoft Access 2010: Intermediate
• Microsoft Access 2010: Advanced
• Microsoft Access 2007/2010: Advanced Skills
• Microsoft Access 2007/2010: Introduction for Beginners
• Microsoft Access 2007 2010: VBA Programming

Audience

Microsoft Office Access 2010: Level 2 is designed for students who would like to learn intermediate-level operations of the Microsoft Office Access program. The Level 2 course is for individuals whose job responsibilities include maintaining data integrity; handling complex queries, forms, and reports; and sharing data between Access and other applications. This course is also a prerequisite to taking more advanced courses in Access 2010.

Skills Gained

• You will maintain data consistency and integrity
• improve queries, forms, and reports
• and also integrate Microsoft Office Access 2010 with other applications.
  
  

Prerequisites

• Define database objects
• Design a simple database
• Create tables and table relationships
• Manage data in a table
• Create filters and queries
• Query records using expressions
• Create and modify forms and reports
• Open and navigate in a Word document
• Open and navigate in an Excel spreadsheet
• Open a text file in Notepad

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Controlling Data Entry

• Topic 1A: Restrict Data Entry Using Field Properties
• Topic 1B: Establish a Pattern 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 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: Customising Reports

• Topic 5A: Organise Report Information
• Topic 5B: Format Reports
• Topic 5C: Control Report Pagination
• Topic 5D: Summarise 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