Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 3
Course Description Overview
You've covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® 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 multiple-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separates database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers.
This course is the third part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform basic database design and development in Access.
- Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 1 : Focuses on the design and construction of an Access database —viewing, navigating, searching, and entering data in a database, as well as basic relational database design and creating simple tables, queries, forms, and reports.
- Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 2 : Focuses on optimization of an Access database, including optimizing performance and normalizing data; data validation; usability; and advanced queries, forms, and reports.
- Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 3 (this course): Focuses on managing the database and supporting complex database designs , including import and export of data; using action queries to manage data; creating complex forms and reports; macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); and tools and strategies to manage, distribute, and secure a database.
This course may be a useful component in your preparation for the Microsoft Access Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019): Exam MO-500 certification exam.
In this course, you will manage an Access database and add complex database features to improve its usability, efficiency, performance, and security.
You will:
- Share data across applications.
- Use action, unmatched, and duplicate queries to manage data.
- Create complex reports and forms.
- Use macros to improve user interface design.
- Use VBA to extend database capabilities.
- Perform database management tasks such as backup, compacting, repairing, performance analysis, checking object dependencies, and documenting.
- Implement security strategies and distribute a database to multiple users.
To ensure your success in this course, you should have experience working with Access, including a working knowledge of database design and creation, form design and creation, report design and creation, and a working knowledge of database querying and the various table relationships. You can obtain this level of skills and knowledge by taking the following United States Career Campus courses:
- Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 1
- Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 2
- Microsoft® Windows® 10 Professional or Enterprise
- Microsoft® 365™ license (which provides the Microsoft Office apps)
NOTE: The Microsoft 365 plan you use depends on the licensing available in your environment. Note that some Microsoft 365 plans do not include Access, so make sure you use one of the plans that includes the Access application.
NOTE: To keep an Office 365 application activated, a user must remain signed into a Microsoft account from within the application. If you log out of an Office application, all Office applications will be deactivated, and the application's feature set will be severely limited—preventing users from creating and saving files, for example. Therefore, if you are setting up classroom computers for students to use, you must have a valid Microsoft account for each computer.
- If necessary, software for viewing the course slides. (Instructor machine only.)
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 gigahertz (GHz) 64-bit (x64) processor.
- 4 gigabytes (GB) of Random Access Memory (RAM).
- 32 GB available storage space.
- Monitor capable of a screen resolution of at least 1280 × 1024 pixels, at least a 256-color display, and a video adapter with at least 4 MB of memory.
- Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device).
- Fast Ethernet (100 Mb/s) adapter or faster and cabling to connect to the classroom network.
- IP addresses that do not conflict with other portions of your network.
- Internet access (contact your local network administrator).
- (Instructor computer only) A display system to project the instructor's computer screen.
Lesson 1: Importing and Exporting Table Data
Topic A: Import and Link Data
Topic B: Export Data
Topic C: Create a Mail Merge
Lesson 2: Using Queries to Manage Data
Topic A: Create Action Queries
Topic B: Create Unmatched and Duplicate Queries
Lesson 3: Creating Complex Reports and Forms
Topic A: Create Subreports
Topic B: Create a Navigation Form
Topic C: Show Details in Subforms and Popup Forms
Lesson 4: Creating Access Macros
Topic A: Create a Standalone Macro to Automate Repetitive Tasks
Topic B: Create a Macro to Program a User Interface Component
Topic C: Filter Records by Using a Condition
Topic D: Create a Data Macro
Lesson 5: Using VBA to Extend Database Capabilities
Topic A: Introduction to VBA
Topic B: Use VBA with Form Controls
Lesson 6: Managing a Database
Topic A: Back Up a Database
Topic B: Manage Performance Issues
Topic C: Document a Database
Lesson 7: Distributing and Securing a Database
Topic A: Split a Database for Multiple-User Access
Topic B: Implement Security
Topic C: Convert an Access Database to an ACCDE File
Topic D: Package a Database with a Digital Signature