Access 2010 for Dummies

by Laurie Ulrich-Fuller, Ken Cook

A friendly, step-by-step guide to the Microsoft Office database applicationAccess may be the least understood and most challenging application in the Microsoft Office suite. This guide is designed to help anyone who lacks experience in creating and managing a database learn to use Access 2010 quickly and easily.

In the classic "For Dummies" tradition, the book provides an education in Access, the interface, and the architecture of a database. It explains the process of building a database, linking information, sharing data, generating reports, and much more.As the Microsoft Office database application, Access may be the least understood and most challenging part of the Office suite"Access 2010 For Dummies" walks newcomers through building and using their first databaseCovers linking information in a database, setting relationships, modeling data, and building tablesExplores how to extract data from Access and get specific answers, create forms, and export data in reportsA section for more experienced users looks at analyzing errors and creating an interface

Fully updated for the newest version, "Access 2010 For Dummies" gets new Access users up to speed and helps veterans get the most from the Office database application.

Genres: Technology, Reference

464 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 7, 2010

Reviews

[Adrienna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the illustrations in B&W are from the 2007 version and not 2010. So I am trying to figure out early on why they are saying 2010 when it should be 2007. They do write a brief paragraph what is the highlight or upgrade for 2010 version; then again this is the first chapter "Getting to Know Access 2010".

I do not plan to read this book, just browse, but I do see since the last time I used Access for a faculty member was in 2001 (so that must've been the 2000 or before version, maybe as far back as 1997). I recall on campus, we used versions a few years prior like 1997 but worked in this dept in 2001-2002 on college campus. S0 these diagrams look way different than I remember. It was more of a database when I had to do students files for faculty member than this I am seeing in this book which looks a bit user-friendly.

I rarely use this program at past administrative jobs I had but just wanted to browse through and see the updated changes since I last had to use it.

I typically do not like the DUMMIES books. I'll pass on this one as well.