Access: Part 2 – Virtual

Your training and experience using Microsoft® Access® has given you basic database management skills, such as creating tables, designing forms and reports, and building queries. In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design; promote quality input from users; improve database efficiency and promote data integrity; and implement advanced features in tables, queries, forms, and reports. Extending your knowledge of Access will result in a robust, functional database for your users.

This course is designed for students wishing to gain intermediate-level skills or individuals whose job responsibilities include constructing relational databases and developing tables, queries, forms, and reports in Microsoft Access for Microsoft 365

To ensure your success in this course, it is recommended you have completed Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 1 or possess equivalent knowledge.

It is also suggested that you have end-user skills with any current version of Windows, including being able to start programs, switch between programs, locate saved files, close programs, and use a browser to access websites.

In this course, you will optimize an Access database.

You will:

• Provide input validation features to promote the entry of quality data into a database.
• Organize a database for efficiency and performance, and to maintain data integrity.
• Improve the usability of Access tables.
• Create advanced queries to join and summarize data.
• Use advanced formatting and controls to improve form presentation.
• Use advanced formatting and calculated fields to improve reports.

Lesson 1: Promoting Quality Data Input
Topic A: Restrict Data Input Through Field Validation
Topic B: Restrict Data Input Through Forms and Record Validation

Lesson 2: Improving Efficiency and Data Integrity
Topic A: Data Normalization
Topic B: Associate Unrelated Tables
Topic C: Enforce Referential Integrity

Lesson 3: Improving Table Usability
Topic A: Create Lookups Within a Table
Topic B: Work with Subdatasheets

Lesson 4: Creating Advanced Queries
Topic A: Create Query Joins
Topic B: Create Subqueries
Topic C: Summarize Data

Lesson 5: Improving Form Presentation
Topic A: Apply Conditional Formatting
Topic B: Create Tab Pages with Subforms and Other Controls

Lesson 6: Creating Advanced Reports
Topic A: Apply Advanced Formatting to a Report
Topic B: Add a Calculated Field to a Report
Topic C: Control Pagination and Print Quality
Topic D: Add a Chart to a Report

Appendix A: Mapping Course Content to Microsoft Access Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019): Exam MO-500

Appendix B: Microsoft® Access® Common Keyboard Shortcuts