Microsoft Access 2007 - intermediate

Get the most out of Microsoft Access 2007 – it has more power to help you than you realise

Need to bring order to chaos? Wasting time searching all over the place for information? Microsoft Access can get it sorted! It will help you create a database to organise your information, leaving you time to get on with the real work.

Is it for me?

If you have a basic knowledge of Access 2007, including creating a new database, working with data, and producing basic queries, reports and forms, and want to extend your skills, this is the course for you.

What’s it all about?

Our workshops are effective because they are based on your real life problems – we expect you to bring all your Access baggage with you! Your learning from the day will stick with you because we use a range of activities, have lots of practice time, and encourage a large amount of questions.

Learning works best when learners can make their own discoveries, so you will have time to play with Access and perhaps have your own Eureka moment!

Our supportive and experienced trainers believe that the most important thing is to meet our learners’ personal objectives. However, to give you an idea of the type of skills you will learn, by the end of the course you should be able to:

• use various data validation features in Access to protect data

• format the data in a table

• perform more advanced queries using a variety of querying techniques

• create and use parameter queries

• create calculated queries

• modify and adapt an existing form according to specific needs

• create and use macros in Access

• create macros on forms

• export records to and import records from a wide variety of sources and applications

Tell me more!

Access 2007 has so much to offer, that we can’t fit all of it into the workshop as there are 90 different possible topics. However, you will receive an indispensable folder of materials to keep on your desk which will include all the following topics:

Formatting tables

• Changing Column Widths

• Formatting Cells In The Table

• Changing Fonts

• Moving Columns In A Table

• Freezing Columns In A Table

• Hiding Columns In A Table

• Unhiding Columns

Querying techniques

• Modifying A Saved Query

• Creating AND Queries

• Creating OR Queries

• Querying Numeric Data

• Querying Dates

• Using A Range Expression

• Querying Opposite Values

• Moving Fields In A Query

• Sorting Query Data

• Removing Fields From A Query

• Querying Using Wildcards

• Problem Characters

• Querying With A Lookup Table

• Sorting Query Data Numerically

• Displaying NULL Values

Modifying forms

• Understanding Form Design And Layout

• Switching Between Form Views

• Selecting Form Objects

• Working With A Control Stack

• Changing Control Widths

• Moving Controls On A Form

• Aligning Controls

• Understanding Properties

• Changing Label Captions

• Adding An Unbound Control

• Adding A Control Source

• Formatting A Control

• Checking The Current Tab Order

• Changing The Tab Order

• Inserting The Date Into The Form Header

Creating and using macros

• Understanding Macros And VBA

• Creating A Macro

• Running A Macro

• Modifying An Existing Macro

• Interacting With The User

• Stepping Through A Macro

• Documenting Macros

Macros on forms

• Understanding Macros And Forms

• Creating Navigation Macros

• Accessing Event Macros

• Creating Unassigned Buttons

• Programming An Event

• Running An Event Macro

• Modifying An Event Macro

• Setting Echo Off

• Adding A Close Button

• Creating A Search Macro

• Running The Search Macro

• Understanding The Search Macro

• Naming Macros

• Referencing Macro Sheet Macros

Importing and exporting records

• Exporting Records To Microsoft Excel

• Exporting Records To dBase

• Exporting Records To Paradox

• Exporting Records To A Text File

• Importing From Microsoft Excel

• Importing From A Text File

• Linking To An External Source

Calculations in queries

• Creating A Calculated Query

• Formatting Calculated Fields

• Summarising Data Using A Query

• Changing The Grouping

• Calculating With Dates

• Using Criteria In Calculations

Questions, questions

Before you start the course we will send you a questionnaire to find out what you know already and what your expectations are for the course.

Venues

You can either come along to our state of the art computer lab, or if you would prefer we can come to your location.

A choice of delivery methods

We can offer a variety of delivery methods:

• One day workshops – either at our venue or bespoke at your venue

• 2 hour ‘bionic bursts’ (bespoke, focused, cost effective) at your venue

• At your desk training – we can work individually with up to 5 people at their desks during one day at your venue (highly bespoke & cost effective)

Your facilitator

Emma Konopka, your principal facilitator, has over 10 years teaching and training experience and experience of supporting clients in their use of a variety of professional research databases. With an MA in Information Studies, Emma combines her experience and knowledge with an engaging facilitator style.

Emma passionately believes in the power of collaboration and discovery in learning. Both of these help learners to learn more efficiently and retain more of the learning in the long term. Learners will be encouraged to play, experiment and work in groups. This accelerated learning style includes such techniques as:

• Problem-solving activities (wherever possible based on your real life problems)

• Collaborative group work

• Activities that engage the body as well as the mind (movement & physical activity help learning)

• Active encouragement of questions

• Lots of practice

Taster session

If you would like to get a taste of our one day workshops we can offer a free 1 hour trial at your offices. You will get to discuss your needs with Emma, you can choose any part of the workshop to see in action and preview the learning materials.

Name dropping

When you sign up for Microsoft Access 2007 (intermediate), you will be in good company:

“I just wanted to thank you for providing such a stimulating and thought-provoking course. I will certainly be implementing the tips and suggestions just as soon as I can. I returned to the office today with renewed vigour and cannot wait for the positive changes to start happening. You’re one smart cookie – keep doing what you’re doing, only good things can happen by taking the Today’s Pa training and I, for one, will spread the word!”

Hayley North - Microsoft

Below are just some of the other companies who have sent their staff to our workshops recently:

• 2012

• AXA Insurance

• Barclays

• The British Library

• Brunel University

• Carphone Warehouse

• DLA Piper

• Girlguiding UK

• The Home Office

• Investa Real Estate

• Npower

• Pepsico

• Rugby Football Union

• Shell

• Surrey Police

• UBS

• Virgin

Fee

This course is available at our computer suite for £199. For a bespoke course at your venue please call 020 7622 2400 for more details.

Our philosophy

Courses and workshops from Indiquo are designed to engage and entertain, as well as inform – that’s how we can promise to make what can seem to be the dullest of subjects interesting.

Our trainers have real-world experience at all levels of the organisation, so they speak your language and understand your issues and problems. And because they have ‘been there and done that’, they know how to get straight to the heart of every subject.