You can use Microsoft Access 2007 to manage your data efficiently using advanced techniques. There are many advanced methods that can be used for modifying and enhancing tables, reports, queries, and forms in order to meet your business needs. This course explains and demonstrates retrieving and validating data, using subforms and subreports, as well as applying conditional formatting in Access 2007 tables, forms, and reports. Advanced query methods make it easy for an experienced end-user to retrieve the results they desire and to have those results displayed in such a way that the data is easy to interpret and analyze. This course describes the various types of join and parameter queries that can be used in Access 2007 and provides demonstrations on the use of action queries, including update, append, delete, and make table queries. It also explores the use of SQL-specific queries such as data-definition, pass-through, subquery, and union queries.

Target Audience
Anyone wishing to become familiar with Microsoft Access 2007 at an advanced level; anyone seeking to obtain Microsoft Application Specialist certification in the use of Microsoft Access 2007; anyone seeking to obtain Microsoft Application Professional certification.

Prerequisites
The Skillsoft Microsoft Office 2007: Beginning Access learning path; familiarity with a Windows user environment

Expected Duration (hours)
3.5

Lesson Objectives

Advanced Data Management in Access 2007
# add a lookup field to an Access 2007 table
# add a subdatasheet to a table
# add attachments to Access 2007 records
# implement data validation in Access 2007
# add a lookup field to a table
# add a subdatasheet to a table |w
# use Expression Builder to construct a rule
# add Subforms to an Access 2007 database
# add Subreports to an Access 2007 database
# apply conditional formatting to a form in Access 2007
# add a subform to an existing form
# apply conditional formatting to a form
# add a subreport to a database
# create and edit joins in Access 2007 databases
# create and use simple parameter queries
# create and run update and append queries in Access 2007
# create and run a make table query
# delete data from an Access 2007 database
# create union queries in Access 2007
# recognize how to create or modify Access 2007 tables and indexes using data-definition queries
# perform SQL processing on a server
# edit the SQL of a SELECT query and use subqueries
# specify a join in a query
# create and run a parameter query
# create and run an update query
# edit the SQL of a SELECT query
# use SQL to create Access 2007 queries