Access Forms and Reports For Dummies

by Brian Underdahl

Create queries that make forms and reports useful Develop forms to access the data you need and make reports that make sense! If you thought you had to use a spreadsheet program to produce reports and forms, guess what! Access can turn out great-looking forms and reports that actually show what's going on with your data -- if you know how to ask it nicely. This hands-on guide helps you do just that, and it works with all versions of Access. Discover how to * Ask Access the right questions * Work with sets of data * Create simple forms with a wizard * Use queries to create new tables * Troubleshoot queries * Add visual features to reports

793 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 10, 2007

Reviews

[The Angry Lawn Gnome · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite frankly I found this work exceedingly hard to follow, perhaps because my unfamiliarity with Access put a great many things "over my head," but I don't see how anyone can say the material is particularly well organized. As an example, the section relating to append queries also involved a detailed explanation of how to import data from an Excel file. To my mind this resulted in a jumble, where neither topic was explained clearly and almost seemed to interfere, one with the other.The book also began with an overview of reports and forms and then shifted back to queries. Huh? There's better books out there than this one, but if you're stuck with it you can probably figure out what you need. Just expect a fair amount of confusion, potty-mouthing and fist to desk pounding along the way.