“Everything you need to master Access 2007 forms, reports, and queries.”
–Charles Carr, Reviews Editor, ComputorEdge Magazine
Create Forms for Business
Ensure Data Entry Accuracy
Build Elegant Form Interfaces
Collect Data Via Email
Design Effective Business Reports
Make an Invoice Report
Create Mailing Labels
Extract Data
Work with Multiple Tables
Calculate Discounts
Analyze Data
Develop your Microsoft Access expertise instantly with proven techniques
Let’s face it: Microsoft Access is a large, intimidating program. Most people never progress beyond creating simple tables and using wizards to build basic forms and reports. At the same time, you need information and you know that what you seek is embedded somewhere in your Access database. Without a more sophisticated knowledge of how to extract and present that data, you’re forced to rely on office gurus and overworked IT people to provide canned reports or one-size-fits-all solutions.
This book changes all that by giving you the skills to build efficient front-ends for data (forms), publish the results in an attractive and easy-to-read format (reports), and extract the data you need (queries). This book shuns the big Access picture and instead focuses intently on forms, reports, and queries. This in-depth approach will give you the knowledge and understanding you need to get at the data and prove the old saw that knowledge is power.
· Focuses on the three technologies that you must master to get the most out of Access: forms, reports, and queries.
· Avoids database theory in favor of practical know-how that you can put to use right away.
· Packed full of real-world examples and techniques to help you learn and understand the importance of each section.
· Covers what’s new and changed in Microsoft Access 2007.
Introduction
Part I: Creating Forms
Chapter 1 Creating and Using a Form
Chapter 2 Working with Form Controls
Chapter 3 Designing Forms for Efficient and Accurate Data Entry
Chapter 4 Designing Forms for Business Use
Chapter 5 Creating Specialized Forms
Part II: Designing and Customizing Reports
Chapter 6 Creating and Publishing a Report
Chapter 7 Designing Effective Business Reports
Chapter 8 Designing Advanced Reports
Chapter 9 Creating Specialized Reports
Part III: Creating Powerful Queries
Chapter 10 Creating a Basic Query
Chapter 11 Building Criteria Expressions
Chapter 12 Working with Multiple-Table Queries
Chapter 13 Creating Advanced Queries
Chapter 14 Creating PivotTable Queries
Chapter 15 Querying with SQL Statements
Index
Paul McFedries is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. Now primarily a writer, Paul is well known as a teacher of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows, and has worked as a programmer, consultant, database developer, and website developer. He has written more than 50 books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus (Que, 2007), Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2007 (Que, 2007), VBA for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Que, 2007), and Windows Vista Unleashed (Sams, 2006).
