Summary
Microsoft Office Access 2016: Part 3
You’ve covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® Office Access® 2016, and now you’re ready to learn advanced Access features such as database management, advanced form design, packaging a database, encrypting a database, preparing a database for multiple-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separate database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers.
This course is the third part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Access.
– Microsoft Office Access 2016: Part 1
– Microsoft Office Access 2016: Part 2
– Microsoft Office Access 2016: Part 3 (this course)
You can also use the course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exam for Microsoft Access 2016.
Completion of this course will earn 0.6 CEUs.
- • Dates: Sep 28, 2022
- • Times: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm (EST)
- • Location: Virtual
- • Seats: 6
- • Price: $355
Introduction
Course Objectives:
In this course, you will manage an Access database and add complex database features to improve its usability, efficiency, performance, and security.
You will:
– Share data across applications.
– Use action, unmatched, and duplicate queries to manage data.
– Create complex reports and forms.
– Use macros to improve user interface design.
– Use VBA to extend database capabilities.
– Perform database management tasks such as backup, compacting, repairing, performance analysis, checking object dependencies, and documenting.
– Implement security strategies and distribute a database to multiple users.
Target Student:
Students taking this course are database administrators or prospective database administrators who have experience working with Microsoft Access for Office 365 and need to learn advanced skills.
Prerequisites:
To ensure your success in this course, you should have experience working with Access for Office 365, including a working knowledge of database design and creation, form design and creation, report design and creation, and a working knowledge of database querying and the various table relationships. You can obtain this level of skills and knowledge by taking the following Logical Operations courses:
Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 1
Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 2
Outline
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Lesson 1: Implementing Advanced Form Design
- Topic A: Add Controls to Forms
- Topic B: Enhance Navigation and Organization of Forms
- Topic C: Apply Conditional Formatting
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Lesson 2: Sharing Data Across Applications
- Topic A: Import Data into Access
- Topic B: Export Access Data
- Topic C: Link Tables to External Data Sources
- Topic D: Create a Mail Merge
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Lesson 3: Using Macros to Improve User Interface Design
- Topic A: Create a Macro
- Topic B: Restrict Records Using a Condition
- Topic C: Validate Data Using a Macro
- Topic D: Automate Data Entry Using a Macro
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Lesson 4: Using VBA
- Topic A: Getting Started with VBA
- Topic B: Enhance Access Using VBA
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Lesson 5: Using Advanced Database Management
- Topic A: Manage a Database
- Topic B: Determine Object Dependency
- Topic C: Document a Database
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Lesson 6: Distributing and Securing a Database
- Topic A: Splitting a Database for Multiple User Access
- Topic B: Implement Security
- Topic C: Convert an Access Database to an ACCDE File
- Topic D: Package a Database with a Digital Signature
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Lesson 7: Managing Switchboards
- Topic A: Create a Database Switchboard
- Topic B: Modify a Database Switchboard
- Topic C: Set Startup Options