Microsoft Access - Foundation Skills

This course will teach you how to utilise Microsoft Access to its full potential, enabling you to design, manage and use this popular database software in a professional context.

Microsoft Access is a highly worthwhile skill to have at your command as this very popular database application is widely used across many employment sectors.

This course provides detailed and varied training programme you’ll be guided through many aspects of Access including; database terminology; planning and design; defining relationships and creating a table; editing data; using advanced tools; using the query wizard; adding a field; exporting an html document; adding charts to forms; and creating macros.

Topics covered include:

Lesson One – Terminology, working with existing databases, opening a table, query, form and report, entering new records, searching and sorting.

Lesson Two – Planning and design, relationships, defining fields, data types and properties, creating tables, entering data, resizing columns, using the lookup wizard.

Lesson Three – Defining relationships, creating tables, formatting, modifying, using the input mask wizard, using templates, renaming an object.

Lesson Four – Editing data, adding records, printing preview, changing page orientation, enforcing referential integrity in a relationship, creating a relationship report, creating a form, working with controls in form design, using AutoFormat, modifying properties in a form

Lesson Five – Using advanced sort, using filters, importing a table from an external database using a junction table to resolve a many to many relationship, defining a composite (primary) key, using a calculated control on a form, creating a multi-value field, creating an attachment field.

Lesson Six – Using query wizard, setting sort criteria, using expressions to set criteria, creating different types of queries, creating and naming a calculated field in a query using aggregate functions.

Lesson Seven – Adding a field with data validation in a table, creating a form with subform, entering data using a form/ subform combination, creating a split form, creating and modifying the design of a report, using the concatenate expression, adding a subreport to an existing report

Lesson Eight – Exporting an html document, understanding object dependencies, importing and exporting a spreadsheet, importing a text file, using the analyze table function, using the analyze performance function, using the database documenter.

Lesson Nine – Adding and modifying a chart, changing the tab order in a form, displaying the current date and time in a form, applying conditional formatting to a field.

Lesson Ten – Creating a macro, adding a control button to a form, backing up a database, viewing database properties, compacting and repairing a database, encrypting a database using a password, saving the database as a previous version, splitting a database.

This popular database programme is used in many industries by those wishing to keep accurate, up to date records of customers, projects, products etc. So, for example, if you’re working as a PA, EA, VA, Secretary, Administrator or Customer Services Executive, learning how to use this software properly will help you and your skill stand out from the crowd.

There are no prerequisites for this course.

If you work as a PA it’s a good tool to help manage large amounts of data or utilise as a way to extract information from a large data set. Similarly Project Managers might find this a good tool to keep track of client contact information or essential project information and again, be able to extract information to assess.