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.