Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Intermediate

Focuses on optimization of an Access database, including optimizing performance and normalizing data; data validation; usability; and advanced queries, forms, and reports.

Description

Overview

Your training and experience using Microsoft® Access® has given you basic database management skills, such as creating tables, designing forms and reports, and building queries. In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design; promote quality input from users; improve database efficiency and promote data integrity; and implement advanced features in tables, queries, forms, and reports. Extending your knowledge of Access will result in a robust, functional database for your users. This course is the second part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Access.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will optimize an Access database. You will:

  • Provide input validation features to promote the entry of quality data into a database
  • Organize a database for efficiency and performance, and to maintain data integrity
  • Improve the usability of Access tables
  • Create advanced queries to join and summarize data
  • Use advanced formatting and controls to improve form presentation
  • Use advanced formatting and calculated fields to improve reports

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for students wishing to gain intermediate-level skills or individuals whose job responsibilities include constructing relational databases and developing tables, queries, forms, and reports in Microsoft Access for Microsoft 365. This course may also be a useful component in your preparation for the Microsoft Access Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019): Exam MO-500 certification exam.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Promoting Quality Data Input

  • Restrict Data Input Through Field Validation
  • Restrict Data Input Through Forms and Record Validation

Lesson 2: Improving Efficiency and Data Integrity

  • Data Normalization
  • Associate Unrelated Tables
  • Enforce Referential Integrity

Lesson 3: Improving Table Usability

  • Create Lookups Within a Table
  • Work with Subdatasheets

Lesson 4: Creating Advanced Queries

  • Create Query Joins
  • Create Subqueries
  • Summarize Data

Lesson 5: Improving Form Presentation

  • Apply Conditional Formatting
  • Create Tab Pages with Subforms and Other Controls

Lesson 6: Creating Advanced Reports

  • Apply Advanced Formatting to a Report
  • Add a Calculated Field to a Report
  • Control Pagination and Print Quality
  • Add a Chart to a Report

Appendix A: Mapping Course Content to Microsoft Access Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019): Exam MO-500

Appendix B: Microsoft® Access® Common Keyboard Shortcuts

Prerequisites

To ensure your success in this course, it is recommended you have completed Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 1 or possess equivalent knowledge. It is also suggested that you have end-user skills with any current version of Windows, including being able to start programs, switch between programs, locate saved files, close programs, and use a browser to access websites.

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