Understanding And Using Microsoft Access For Windows 95

This book can be used in any course in which you want students to learn all the most important topics of Microsoft Access 7 for Windows 95, including planning, creating, and maintaining Access databases. Students learn how to retrieve information using queries and develop professional-looking reports, as well as create customized forms to access and enter data in a database.

The "Exploring Windows 95" series has been updated to accommodate the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. Problem sets have been expanded to review and extend the information, with four levels of end-of-chapter exercises. This work explores Access 7.0

These picture tutorials teach students computer applications, using screen shots to guide them each step of the way. The text aims to highlight common trouble spots and review information presented in earlier PicTorials. It features: guided tutorials, procedure mastery drills and skill-building exercises; and QuickStep boxes, looking back and looking ahead boxes, pausing for practice boxes, and tip boxes. Each pictorial closes with a variety of true-false, multiple choice and fill-in questions, as well as independent projects.

For quick and easy answers to questions on Access, there's simply no better resource than this Field Guide. The colorful, humorous, illustrated guide provides an easy-access, concise, visual quick reference to Access for Windows 95, with step-by-step coverage of all the essential tasks, terms, and techniques that beginning to intermediate users need.

Using a hands-on approach, this comprehensive guidebook and tutorial shows beginning-to-intermediate users how to get the most out of all the new tools and features in the major upgrade to the bestselling Windows database development software--Access for Windows 95. Disk contains all the macros, forms, reports, tables, queries, and sample databases found in the book.

For quick and easy answers to questions on Access, there's simply no better resource than this Field Guide. The colorful, humorous, illustrated guide provides an easy-access, concise, visual quick reference to Access for Windows 95, with step-by-step coverage of all the essential tasks, terms, and techniques that beginning to intermediate users need.

[The book] is about managing data with a personal computer. Even more, it will help you design forms and reports for retrieving and viewing the information necessary to run an organization. Because it is based on Microsoft Windows 95, Access is easy to use and a very powerful way to organize data. The built-in Wizard templates enable you to build useful database objects with no programming. It is [the author's] intention to offer a book that not only teaches how to use Microsoft Access, but also examines the design of databases in an understandable manner. -Pref.

A complete and thorough tutorial on this full-featured relational database management system, Running Microsoft Access for Windows provides a comprehensive, easy-to-access, example-filled user's guide and reference to Access for Windows 95, for all levels of users who want to design and build Access databases and need a one-stop information source from an Access expert.

Mastering Microsoft Access for Windows 95 is a comprehensive guide to successful database management. Accurate, insightful, and easy to read, this book is designed for beginners, upgraders, and aspiring developers alike. Get off to a fast start. Newcomers get a clear introduction to database concepts, then learn basic Access skills in one sitting. Upgraders can flip ahead to "What's New" sections at the end of each chapter. Learn the nuts and bolts of database management. Find out how to build and query tables; link, import, and export data; use Wizards to create forms and reports; and translate data into meaningful charts and PivotTables. Create full-fledged custom applications. Turn your Access database into a standalone Windows application, complete with your own custom switchboards, dialog boxes, toolbars, and menus. You'll also learn to fine-tune Access to achieve the best possible performance; use networking and security features; use Visual Basic for Applications to refine custom applications; and find out why existing applications work the way they do.