Microsoft® Office Access® 2013: Part 3
Course Description 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.
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.
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 United States Career Campus courses:
- Microsoft® Office Access® 2013: Part 1
- Microsoft® Office Access® 2013: Part 2
Microsoft® Office Professional 2013
Microsoft® Windows® 8
- A PDF reader such as Adobe® Reader®
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
Lesson 1: Implementing Advanced Form Design
Topic A: Add Controls to Forms
Topic B: Create Subforms
Topic C: Organize Information with Tab Pages
Topic D: Enhance Navigation of Forms
Topic E: Apply Conditional Formatting
Lesson 2: Using Data Validation
Topic A: Field Validation
Topic B: Form and Record Validation
Lesson 3: Using Macros to Improve User Interface Design
Topic A: Create a Macro
Topic B: Restrict Records Using a Condition
Topic C: Validate Data Using a Macro
Topic D: Automate Data Entry Using a Macro
Topic E: Convert a Macro to VBA
Lesson 4: Using Advanced Database Management
Topic A: Link Tables to External Data Sources
Topic B: Manage a Database
Topic C: Determine Object Dependency
Topic D: Document a Database
Topic E: Analyze the Performance of a Database
Lesson 5: Distributing and Securing a Database
Topic A: Split a Database for Multiple User Access
Topic B: Implement Security
Topic C: Set Passwords
Topic D: Convert an Access Database to an ACCDE File
Topic E: Package a Database with a Digital Signature
Lesson 6: Managing Switchboards
Topic A: Create a Database Switchboard
Topic B: Modify a Database Switchboard
Topic C: Set Startup Options