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Overview
You've covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® Office Access® and now you're ready to learn advanced Access features such as database management, advanced form design, packaging a database, encrypting a database, preparing a database for multi-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separate database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers. Today's training, added to that which you've gained from the previous two days, rounds out your Access education and provides you with marketable job skills.
You can also use the course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exams for Microsoft Access 2013.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Customize a form layout to improve usability and efficiency of data entry.
- Add user interface features to validate data entry.
- Use macros to improve user interface design.
- Organize data into appropriate tables to ensure data dependency and minimize redundancy.
- Lock down and prepare a database for distribution to multiple users.
- Create and modify a database switchboard and set the startup options.
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Prerequisites
To ensure your success in your course you should have experience working with Microsoft Access 2013, including a working knowledge of database design and creation, form design and creation, report design and creation, a working knowledge of database querying and the various table relationships. You can obtain this level of skill and knowledge by taking the following courses:
- Microsoft® Office Access® 2013: Part 1
- Microsoft® Office Access® 2013: Part 2
- Course-specific Technical Requirements
Target Student:
Students taking this course are database administrators or prospective database administrators who have experience working with Access 2013 and need to learn advanced skills.
Course-specific Technical Requirements
Hardware
For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:
- 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
- 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
- CD-ROM drive
- Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
- 1024 x 768 resolution monitor recommended
- Network cards and cabling for local network access
- Internet access (contact your local network administrator)
- Printer (optional) or an installed printer driver
- Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen
Software
- Microsoft® Office Professional 2013
- Microsoft® Windows® 8
- A PDF reader such as Adobe® Reader®
Course duration
1 Day
Course outline
Lesson 1: Implementing Advanced Form Design
TopicA: Add Controls to Forms
TopicB: Create Subforms
TopicC: Organize Information with Tab Pages
TopicD: Enhance Navigation of Forms
TopicE: Apply Conditional Formatting
Lesson 2: Using Data Validation
TopicA: Field Validation
TopicB: Form and Record Validation
Lesson 3: Using Macros to Improve User Interface Design
TopicA: Create a Macro
TopicB: Restrict Records Using a Condition
TopicC: Validate Data Using a Macro
TopicD: Automate Data Entry Using a Macro
TopicE: Convert a Macro to VBA
Lesson 4: Using Advanced Database Management
TopicA: Link Tables to External Data Sources
TopicB: Manage a Database
TopicC: Determine Object Dependency
TopicD: Document a Database
TopicE: Analyze the Performance of a Database
Lesson 5: Distributing and Securing a Database
TopicA: Split a Database for Multiple User Access
TopicB: Implement Security
TopicC: Set Passwords
TopicD: Convert an Access Database to an ACCDE File
TopicE: Package a Database with a Digital Signature
Lesson 6: Managing Switchboards
TopicA: Create a Database Switchboard
TopicB: Modify a Database Switchboard
TopicC: Set Startup Options
Appendix A: Microsoft Office Access 2013 Exam 77-424
Appendix B: Microsoft Access 2013 Common Keyboard Shortcuts
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