Access 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies - Softcover

Simpson, Alan; Young, Margaret Levine; Barrows, Alison; Wells, April; McCarter, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470036494 ISBN 13: 9780470036495

Publisher: For Dummies, 2006

Synopsis

• Updated to cover all the latest features and capabilities ofAccess 2007, this resource provides new and inexperienced Accessusers with eight task-oriented minibooks that cover begininning toadvanced-level material 
• Each minibook covers a specific aspect of Access, such asdatabase design, tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros
• Shows how to accomplish specific tasks such as databasehousekeeping, security data, and using Access with the Web
• Access is the world's leading desktop database solution and isused by millions of people to store, organize, view, analyze, andshare data, as well as to build powerful, custom database solutionsthat integrate with the Web and enterprise data sources

About this title

From the Back Cover

Give your Access confidence a boost by mastering the newinterface!

Your one-stop guide to the revised, mode user-friendlyrelease of Access.

Access 2007 got a total makeover, and this all-in-one guidehelps you work with confidence even if you're all new to Access.The individual work with confidence even if you're all new toAccess. The individual minibooks show you how to create and workwith tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros; manage databases;and program Access with VBA.

Discover how to:

• Create a database quickly and easily from templates
• Sort, find, and filter data
• Use queries to gather data
• Perform calculations in forms
• Automate actions with macros
• Secure your Access database

About the Author

Alan Simpson is the author of over 115 computer books on allsorts of topics: Windows, databases, Web-site design anddevelopment, programming, and network administration. His books arepublished throughout the world, in over a dozen languages, and havesold millions of copies. Though definitely in the techno-geekcategory, we let him contribute anyway because sometimes peoplelike that come in handy.

Margaret Levine Young has co-authored several dozencomputer books about the Internet, UNIX, WordPerfect, Access, and(stab from the past) PC-File and Javelin, including The InternetFor Dummies (Wiley) and Windows XP Home Edition: TheComplete Reference (Osborne/McGraw-Hill). She met her futurehusband Jordan in the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S., a high-school computerclub before there were high-school computer clubs. Her otherpassions are her children, music, Unitarian Universalism(www.uua.org), reading, and anything to do with cooking oreating.

Alison Barrows has authored or co-authored books onWindows, the Internet, Microsoft Access, WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3,and other topics. In addition to writing books, Alison writes andedits technical documentation and training material. In real lifeshe hangs out with her “guys” — Parker, 6, andMason, 4, and Evan 2 — and tries to carve out some time topractice yoga. Alison lives with her family in centralMassachusetts.

April Wells is a graduate of the University of Pittsburghand holds an MBA from West Texas A&M. She is a databaseadministrator with expertise in a wide variety of enterprisedatabase software programs, including Oracle, DB2, MySQL, andAccess. She is the author of several books and white papers ondatabase software and is a frequent public speaker, trainer, andconsultant.

About this edition

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0470036494
• ISBN 13: 9780470036495
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 736