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Office 2013 Digital Classroom
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Office 2013 Digital Classroom

by Walter Holland, AGI Creative Team
August 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
672 pages
14h 31m
English
Wiley
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Access Lesson 2: Getting Started with Microsoft Access 2013

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In this lesson, you will become more familiar with creating tables and importing data into Microsoft Access 2013. You will create basic tables and learn about different field data types. You will also import data into Access from Microsoft Excel.

What you’ll learn in this lesson:

  • Creating a new blank database and a template
  • Creating a table and fields
  • Using Design view to edit a table table and create a primary key
  • Importing Microsoft Excel data into Access

Starting up

You will work with files from the Access02lessons folder. Make sure that you have loaded the OfficeLessons folder onto your hard drive from www.digitalclassroombooks.com/Office2013. If you need further instructions, see “Loading lesson files” in the Starting up section of this book.

Access 2013 database types

Access 2013 has two types of databases:

1 Desktop (standard) database, which is stored on your computer, a network, or another computer storage location and run directly from the location on your computer. The exercises in this lesson involve the desktop database type.

2 An Access web app, which was introduced with Access 2013. This new type of database can be built from Access, and then used and shared with others as a SharePoint app in a web browser. You create the app by selecting the type of data you want to track (contacts, tasks, ...

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