Microsoft Access 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques

by Thomas J. Cashman, Philip J. Pratt, Gary B. Shelly

Book Overview

Introduce your students to the new generation of Microsoft Office with the new generation of Shelly Cashman Series books For the past three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series has effectively... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1418843393
• ISBN13: 9781418843397
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

since you can't "see inside this book" . . .

it's a brief presentation of Access 2007 - three chapters, a special feature emphasizing web-related topics, seven appendices, and a Quick Reference Summary, but that's enough for you to learn and understand the basics of Access 2007. Each chapter presents a project and its complete solution in an easy-to-understand approach. PLAN AHEAD BOXES get you ready to create projects by getting you to think strategically about what you want to do way before you start to work. Once you're ready there will be STEP-BY-STEP, SCREEN-BY-SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS with each step explaining why you're doing what you've been asked to do, or showing you the result of performing a certain action. Found on the screen accompanying each step, but not in an obtrusive way, are CALL-OUTS that present information you'll need to know when you need to know it. EXPLANATORY CALL-OUTS are in black and summarize what's happening on the screen while NAVIGATIONAL CALL-OUTS in red show you where to click. Found within many of the step-by-step sequences are Q & As that raise the kinds of questions you would ask if you were sitting in front of an instructor. EXPERIMENTAL STEPS get you to explore, experiment, and get confident with that new Office 2007 user interface. OTHER WAYS BOXES AND QUICK REFERENCE SUMMARIES at the end of most of the step-by-step sequences show other ways to do a given task. BTW (by the way) is in the margin and provide (more) background information, tips, and answers to common questions that complement the topics covered. How the book is laid out: CHAPTER ONE Creating and Using a Database: Designing a Database, Creating a Database, Creating a Table, Previewing and Printing the Contents of a Table, Creating Additional Tables, Creating a Report, Using a Form to View Data, Changing Document Properties. CHAPTER TWO Querying a Database: Creating Queries, Entering Criteria, Sorting, Joining Tables, Calculations, Crosstab Queries. CHAPTER THREE Maintaining a Database: Updating Records, Filtering Records, Changing the Database Structure, Mass Changes, Validation Rules, Changing the Appearance of a Datasheet, Multivalued Field in Queries, Referential Integrity, Ordering Records, Special Database Operations. Each of these chapters end with ... MORE ... information and really fun Web-based exercises and games. Then comes a section on the INTEGRATION FEATURE: Sharing Data Among Applications, Importing or Linking Data from Other Applications to Access, Exporting Data from Access to Other Applications, and XML. Appendices abound: A - Project Planning Guidelines, B - Introduction to Office 2007, C - Access 2007 Help, D - Publishing Office 2007 Web Pages to a Web Server, E - Customizing Access 2007, F - Steps for the Windows XP User (the book was written for Vista users, it's funny because I didn't find too many problems using it with XP Professional), G - Business Certification Program. But what I love dearly about this - and the other Shelly Cashman 2007 books - are the Stude

Very helpful

Got this book to learn Access. It's very helpful, user-friendly, well-organized. I've quickly learned how to use this very complex program with the excellent resources in this book and offered through Shelly/Cashman. Highly recommend this to self-taught data managers.

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Microsoft Office Access 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques

I had accidentally ordered the wrong book, and I have returned it. I'm sure it's a great book, but I just didn't need it at this time.