Chapter 8. A Macro Primer
If you’ve been reading the book sequentially, you’ll note that I’ve been going over material more or less (one big exception) in the order objects appear in the database view. Here I’m going to skip data access pages and go right to macros.
Today You Will Learn
From working with people who use Access, I found that (contrary to what major trade magazines want you to believe) macros are put to good use for a variety of tasks. There are several good reasons for this, and in this lesson, you will learn the basics in order to put them to use in your database application. Specifically in this lesson you will learn
What macros do in Access
When to use macros
The elements of macros
How to use macros with events
How to group macros into ...
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