June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
834 pages
29h 12m
English
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About This Book
Despite the many improvements in software over the years, one feature hasn’t improved a bit: Microsoft’s documentation. In fact, with Office 2010, you get no printed user guide at all. To learn about the thousands of features included in this software collection, Microsoft expects you to read the online help.
Occasionally, these help screens are actually helpful, like when you’re looking for a quick description explaining a mysterious programming command. On the other hand, if you’re trying to learn how to, say, create a summary with subtotals, you’ll find nothing better than terse and occasionally cryptic instructions.
This book is the manual that should have accompanied Access 2010. In these pages, you’ll find step-by-step instructions and tips for using almost every Access feature, including those you haven’t (yet) heard of.
About the Outline
This book is divided into seven parts, each containing several chapters.
Part 1: Storing Information in Tables. In this part, you’ll build your first database and learn how to add and edit tables that store information. Then you’ll pick up the real-world skills you need to stop mistakes before they happen, browse around your database, and link tables together.
Part 2: Manipulating Data with Queries. In this part, you’ll build queries—specialized commands that can hunt down the data you’re interested in, apply changes, and summarize vast amounts of information.
Part 3: Printing Reports. This part shows you how to use reports to take ...
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