Microsoft Access 2007: Level 2

Duration: 15 Hrs

Cost: $599 + GST

Enrollment for additional Course or second kid - 10% discount

Course Description

You should have the basic skills you need to work with a Microsoft® Office Access 2007 databases. This includes working with Access tables, relationships, queries, forms, and reports. But thus far you have been focusing on essential database user skills only. In this course you will consider how to design and create a new Access database, how to customize database components, and how to share Access data with other applications.

Prerequisites: To ensure the successful completion of Microsoft Access 2007: Level 2, we recommend completion of the following courses, or equivalent knowledge (basic familiarity with Access tables, relationships, queries, forms, and reports) from another source:

• Microsoft Access 2007: Level 1

A basic understanding of Microsoft® Excel and Microsoft® Word would also be helpful, but is not required.

Performance-Based Objectives

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

• follow the steps required to properly design a simple database.
• create a new database with related tables.
• control data entry by modifying the design of a table to streamline data entry and maintain data integrity.
• find and retrieve desired data by using filters and joins between tables and within a single table.
• create flexible queries to display specified records; allow for user-determined query criteria; and add, update, and delete data with queries.
• enhance the appearance, data entry, and data access capabilities of your forms.
• customize reports to better organize the displayed information and produce specific print layouts such as mailing labels.
• use Access data in other applications, including Microsoft Word and Excel.

Course Content

1. Planning a Database
1. Design a Relational Database
2. Identify Database Purpose
3. Review Existing Data
4. Determine Fields?
5. Group Fields into Tables
6. Normalize the Data
2. Building the Structure of a Database
1. Create a New Database
2. Create a Table Using a Wizard
3. Create Tables in Design View
4. Create Relationships between Tables
3. Controlling Data Entry
1. Restrict Data Entry with Field Properties
2. Create an Input Mask
3. Create a Lookup Field
4. Create Tables in Design View
5. Create Relationships between Tables
4. Finding and Joining Data
1. Find Data with Filters
2. Create Query Joins
3. Join Unrelated Tables
4. Relate Data Within a Table
5. Creating Flexible Queries
1. Set Select Query Properties
2. Create Parameter Queries
3. Create Action Queries
6. Improving Your Forms
7. Customizing Your Reports
1. Organize Report Information
2. Set Report Control Properties
3. Control Report Pagination
4. Summarize Information
5. Add a Subreport to an Existing Report
6. Create Mailing Labels
8. Expanding the Reach of Your Data
1. Publish Access Data as a Word Document
2. Analyze Access Data in Excel
3. Export Data to a Text File
4. Merge Access Data with a Word Document

For more information on any course, please call us at (647)-430-7478 or Email us at:   hr@whizkids.ca