Access: Part 3

You’ve covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® Access®, and now you’re ready to learn advanced Access features such as database management, advanced form design, packaging a database, encrypting a database, preparing a database for multiple-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separates database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers.

This course is the third part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform basic database design and development in Access.

• Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 1 : Focuses on the design and construction of an Access database —viewing, navigating, searching, and entering data in a database, as well as basic relational database design and creating simple tables, queries, forms, and reports.
• Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 2 : Focuses on optimization of an Access database, including optimizing performance and normalizing data; data validation; usability; and advanced queries, forms, and reports.
• Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 3 (this course): Focuses on managing the database and supporting complex database designs , including import and export of data; using action queries to manage data; creating complex forms and reports; macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); and tools and strategies to manage, distribute, and secure a database.

Students taking this course are database administrators or prospective database administrators who have experience working with Access for Microsoft 365 and need to learn advanced skills.

To ensure your success in this course, you should have experience working with Access, including a working knowledge of database design and creation, form design and creation, report design and creation, and a working knowledge of database querying and the various table relationships. You can obtain this level of skills and knowledge by taking the following Microassist courses:

• Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 1
• Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 2

In this course, you will manage an Access database and add complex database features to improve its usability, efficiency, performance, and security.

You will:

• Share data across applications.
• Use action, unmatched, and duplicate queries to manage data.
• Create complex reports and forms.
• Use macros to improve user interface design.
• Use VBA to extend database capabilities.
• Perform database management tasks such as backup, compacting, repairing, performance analysis, checking object dependencies, and documenting.
• Implement security strategies and distribute a database to multiple users.

Lesson 1: Importing and Exporting Table Data

Topic A: Import and Link Data
Topic B: Export Data
Topic C: Create a Mail Merge

Lesson 2: Using Queries to Manage Data
Topic A: Create Action Queries
Topic B: Create Unmatched and Duplicate Queries

Lesson 3: Creating Complex Reports and Forms
Topic A: Create Subreports
Topic B: Create a Navigation Form
Topic C: Show Details in Subforms and Popup Forms

Lesson 4: Creating Access Macros
Topic A: Create a Standalone Macro to Automate Repetitive Tasks
Topic B: Create a Macro to Program a User Interface Component
Topic C: Filter Records by Using a Condition
Topic D: Create a Data Macro

Lesson 5: Using VBA to Extend Database Capabilities
Topic A: Introduction to VBA
Topic B: Use VBA with Form Controls

Lesson 6: Managing a Database
Topic A: Back Up a Database
Topic B: Manage Performance Issues
Topic C: Document a Database

Lesson 7: Distributing and Securing a Database
Topic A: Split a Database for Multiple-User Access
Topic B: Implement Security
Topic C: Convert an Access Database to an ACCDE File
Topic D: Package a Database with a Digital Signature

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
Appendix C: More Queries and Calculations
Appendix D: Common SQL Commands