Posted on July 8th, 2010 by Davy C
After taking Microsoft Access courses and obtaining a lot of useful knowledge, you feel more or less confident about creating a database and have less fear about working with Access. But, when you come back to your work place, you realize that it is different from classroom and seems much harder than doing it with [...]
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Posted on May 19th, 2010 by Davy C
To the best of our knowledge, one of the popular Office programs provided by Microsoft is Microsoft Access. Mostly we use this program if we have to store some data. In the common computers with database systems the data are stored in flat files. But here all the data are stored in Microsoft Access tables. [...]
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Posted on May 6th, 2010 by Davy C
One of the useful functions in Access database is to create reports. There are two report formats in MS Access database – columnar and tabular. Report in tabular format look like spreadsheet you can see in Excel or other spreadsheets applications. In columnar reports every column is devoted to one record. You can also create [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2010 by Davy C
There are many objects in Microsoft Access database. One of them is a form, which is another name for screen. They are usually used for entering information into tables. There are various types of forms available, but the most commonly used are the main form and subforms. You can create the form only after you [...]
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Posted on April 25th, 2010 by Davy C
Some time ago spreadsheets were enough for storing and managing big amounts of data and that was sufficient for performing certain tasks. Nowadays, many companies and their workers have a job to manage a lot more data, which made spreadsheets no longer viable. Spreadsheets have been replaced by databases. And even though databases are more [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2010 by Davy C
There are many objects contained in Microsoft Access including forms, tables, reports, queries, etc. All these objects help you store and work with data. And while the Access database is very complex, some malfunction may occur. So, when you try to access any of the data, you can encounter an error message that happened due [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2010 by Davy C
Microsoft Access is one of the most useful, but also complex applications out of all Microsoft Office products. Even if you are a very cautious user and always keep your files in order on your computer, when using Access database, sooner or later its files will get corrupted. It doesn’t always depend on you and [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2010 by Davy C
When we use Microsoft Access or Microsoft Excel, it is easy and common to sort text or number columns. There are special buttons in both programs that allow us to sort in ascending or descending way. The button for ascending sorting has a blue A above the red Z and an arrow pointing down. And [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2010 by Davy C
To the best of our knowledge, one of the popular Office programs provided by Microsoft is Microsoft Access. Mostly we use this program if we have to store some data. In the common computers with database systems the data are stored in flat files. But here all the data are stored in Microsoft Access tables. [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2010 by Davy C
It’s a bit surprisingly that some people don’t know about the product provided by Microsoft called Microsoft Access. Due to this fact some ignorant people instead of using Access databases, which are more convenient, use Excel. The principle in Access is also tables, but they all are saved in a single database. The main thing [...]
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