Chapter 3. Automatic Access

In the previous two lessons you learned theory and mostly introductory material. Many developers ignore the wizards, because they don’t know about the benefits that can be gained by using them. The important concept behind today’s lesson is to understand that the wizards can save you a lot of time and that you can study the generated database applications for ideas that you can use in your own database.

Today You Will Learn

In today’s lesson, you will see Access wizards in action. Specifically, this lesson covers the following topics:

  • Why Automatic Access?

  • The Database Templates

  • Table Wizard

  • Query Wizard

  • Form Wizard

  • Report Wizard

  • Page Wizard

After you finish today’s lesson, you will be able to pick and choose what wizard will ...

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