A friendly, step-by-step guide to the Microsoft Office database application
Access may be the least understood and most challenging application in the Microsoft Office suite. This guide is designed to help anyone who lacks experience in creating and managing a database learn to use Access 2010 quickly and easily.
In the classic For Dummies tradition, the book provides an education in Access, the interface, and the architecture of a database. It explains the process of building a database, linking information, sharing data, generating reports, and much more.
* As the Microsoft Office database application, Access may be the least understood and most challenging part of the Office suite
* Access 2010 For Dummies walks newcomers through building and using their first database
* Covers linking information in a database, setting relationships, modeling data, and building tables
* Explores how to extract data from Access and get specific answers, create forms, and export data in reports
* A section for more experienced users looks at analyzing errors and creating an interface
Fully updated for the newest version, Access 2010 For Dummies gets new Access users up to speed and helps veterans get the most from the Office database application.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1
Part I: Basic Training 9
Chapter 1: Getting to Know Access 2010 11
Chapter 2: Finding Your Way Around Access 37
Chapter 3: Database Basics 59
Part II: Getting It All on the Table 79
Chapter 4: Keys, Relationships, and Indexes 81
Chapter 5: Remodeling Your Data 99
Chapter 6: What's Happening Under the Table? 115
Part III: Data Mania and Management 139
Chapter 7: Creating Data Forms 141
Chapter 8: Importing and Exporting Data 155
Chapter 9: Editing Data Automatically 169
Chapter 10: Gather Locally, Share Globally 181
Part IV: Ask Your Data, and Ye Shall Receive Answers 201
Chapter 11: Fast Finding, Filtering, and Sorting Data 203
Chapter 12: I Was Just Asking . . . for Answers 219
Chapter 13: I'll Take These AND Those OR Them 245
Chapter 14: Queries That Think Faster Than You 255
Chapter 15: Calculating with Your Data 267
Chapter 16: Flying into Action Queries 283
Part V: Plain and Fancy Reporting 295
Chapter 17: Quick and Not-So-Dirty Automatic Reporting 297
Chapter 18: Dazzling Report Design 319
Chapter 19: Headers and Footers and Groups, Oh My! 345
Chapter 20: Magical Mass Mailings 367
Part VI: More Power to You 375
Chapter 21: Making It All Better with the Analyzer Tools 377
Chapter 22: Hello! Creating an Interface to Welcome Database Users 389
Part VII: The Part of Tens 399
Chapter 23: Ten Common Problems 401
Chapter 24: Ten Uncommon Tips 413
Index 421
