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Office 2021 All-in-One For Dummies
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Office 2021 All-in-One For Dummies

by Peter Weverka
February 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
800 pages
19h 1m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1

Introducing Access

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding how databases work

Bullet Looking at tables, queries, forms, and other database objects

Bullet Creating a database

Bullet Designing the tables, queries, forms, and the other parts of a database

The word database is prone to making most people feel kind of queasy. Can you blame them? Database terminology — record, field, and filter is the worst of the worst. It even puts other computer terminology to shame. Databases intimidate most people. Even brave souls with a considerable amount of experience in Word and Excel shy away from Access, the Office 2021 database program. However, Access can be invaluable for storing and organizing customer lists, inventories, addresses, payment histories, donor lists, and volunteer lists.

This chapter introduces databases and the concepts behind databases. It shows you how to create a database and database tables for storing information. The second half of this chapter explains how to design databases. Sorry, but you have to know about database design before you can start fooling with databases. You can’t jump ...

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