Jennings: Spec Ed Usng Msaccess07_p1 - Softcover

Jennings, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789735970 ISBN 13: 9780789735973

Publisher: Que, 2007

Synopsis

This book offers users comprehensive information on using the new version of Access. Not only updated for the latest version, new chapters have been added on application automation with Access macros and collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint Team Server, both of which are hot topics. All chapters are updated for the transition from Jet to the new Access database engine. Detailed, step-by-step instructions with icons guide new readers through Access through table design, data addition, importing data from external sources, query design and execution, and designing data entry forms and printed reports. Additional chapters on advanced form and report design emphasize data-entry efficiency and presentation clarity.

About this title

About the Author

Roger Jennings is an author and consultant specializing in Windows database applications.

He was a technical beta tester for all nine editions of Microsoft Access, SQL Server

6.5, 7.0, 2000, and 2005, every release of Visual Basic since version 2.0, as well as Windows

3.1 and all subsequent Microsoft Windows operating systems. He also was one of the

founding members of Microsoft's former Access Insiders group.

Roger's books have more than 1.25 million English copies in print and have been translated

into more than 20 languages. He is the author of Que's Special Edition Using Microsoft

Access titles for Access versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 95, 97 (first and second editions), 2000, 2002,

and 2003, and Platinum Edition Using Access 97. He also wrote Que's Special Edition Using

Windows NT Server 4, Special Edition Using Windows 2000 Server, Unveiling Windows 95,

Access Hot Tips, and Discover Windows 3.1 Multimedia. For Pearson Education's Sams

imprint, he has written two editions of Access Developer's Guide and three editions of

Database Developers Guide with Visual Basic. Additionally, he was the series editor for the

Roger Jennings' Database Workshop titles.

Roger is a contributing editor for the Redmond Media Group's Visual Studio Magazine and

a columnist for the group's .NETInsight newsletter. Roger co-authored with Microsoft's

Greg Nelson "A Client/Server Application: From Concept to Reality," a Tech*Ed presentation

and white paper on Access 2.0 that was featured in the Microsoft Developer Network

News. An Access 2007 version of the application described in the white paper is located in

the \SEUA12\Chaptr15 folder of the accompanying CD-ROM.

Roger has more than 25 years of computer-related experience, beginning with his work on

the Wang 700 desktop calculator/computer. He is a principal of OakLeaf Systems, a

Northern California software consulting firm, and is the author of the OakLeaf Systems

blog (http: //oakleafblog.blogspot.com). His OakLeaf U.S. Code of Federal Regulations

(CFR) XML Web services demonstration project won the 2001 Microsoft .NET Best

Award for horizontal solutions. You can contact Roger at

Roger_Jennings@compuserve.com.

From the Back Cover

This book offers you comprehensive, information on using the new version of Access. Not only updated for the latest version, new chapters have been added on application automation with Access macros and collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint Team Server, both of which are hot topics. All chapters are updated for the transition from Jet to the new Access database engine. Detailed, step-by-step instructions with icons guide you through Access through table design, data addition, importing data from external sources, query design and execution, and designing data entry forms and printed reports.

FM Introduction I Getting Acquainted with Access 2007 1 Access 2007 for Access 200x Users: What's New
2 Building Simple Tracking Applications
3 Navigating the New Access User Interface
II Learning the Fundamentals of Access Databases 4 Exploring Relational Database Theory and Practice 5 Working with Access Databases and Tables 6 Entering, Editing, and Validating Access Table Data
7 Sorting, Finding, and Filtering Data
8 Linking, Importing, and Exporting Data III Transforming Data with Queries and PivotTables 9 Designing Queries for Access Databases 10 Understanding Access Operators and Expressions
11 Creating Multitable and Crosstab Queries
12 Working with PivotTable and PivotChart Views 13 Creating and Updating Access Tables with Action Queries
IV Designing Forms and Reports 14 Creating and Using Basic Access Forms
15 Designing Custom Multitable Forms 16 Working with Simple Reports and Mailing Labels 17 Preparing Advanced Reports 18 Adding Graphs, PivotCharts, and PivotTables
V Moving to Networked Multiuser Applications 19 Linking Access Front Ends to Access and Client/Server Tables
20 Exploring Access Data Projects and SQL Server 2005 21 Moving from Access Queries to Transact-SQL
22 Upsizing Access Applications to Access Data Projects
VI Collaborating with Access Data 23 Importing and Exporting Web Pages 24 Integrating with XML and InfoPath 2007 25 Collaborating with Windows SharePoint Services
VII Programming and Converting Access Applications 26 Automating Access Applications with Macros 2007
27 Learning Visual Basic for Applications
28 Handling Events with VBA and Macros 29 Programming Combo and List Boxes 30 Understanding Data Access Objects, OLE DB, and ADO
31 Upgrading 200X Applications to Access 2007
VIII Appendix A Glossary
Index

Edition details

• Publisher: Que
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0789735970
• ISBN 13: 9780789735973
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1460