Microsoft® Office Access 2003 Inside Out

Using a Query Wizard

Every time you have opened the New Query dialog box, you have seen the tantalizing query wizard entries. You can use query wizards to help you build certain types of "tricky" queries such as crosstab queries (discussed later in this chapter) and queries to find duplicate or unmatched rows. For example, you could have used a query wizard to build the query shown in Figure 8-9 to locate employees who have no room reservations. Let’s use a query wizard to build a query to perform a similar search in the ContactsDataCopy.mdb sample file to find contacts who don’t own any products.

To try this, click the Queries button in the Database window, and then click the New button. This time, select Find Unmatched Query Wizard in the New ...