19th Annual Course Technology Computing Conference 2014
Diving Deep Into Access 2013
Presenter: Lisa Friedrichsen, Professor at Johnson County Community College
Diving Deep Into Access 2013 - Course Technology Computing Conference
1. Diving Deep Into Access 2013
Lisa Friedrichsen
Professor @ Johnson County Community College
Author @ Cengage, Illustrated Access series
2. Brief = 4 Units Introductory = 8 Units Complete =16 Units
3. 15 chapters of common examples…
Excel
- Budgets / What If Analysis
- Income Statement
- Balance Sheet
- Cash Flow Analysis
- Decision Support & Charting
- Scenario Analysis
- Breakeven Analysis
- Trend Analysis
- Linear Programming
- List Management
Access
- Relational Database Management
- Querying a Relational Database
- Information Communication / Reports
- Interface Design / Forms
- Application Development / Macros, VBA
4.
5.
6. What’s
New in
Access
2013?
• Text data type = Short Text
• Memo data type = Long Text
• No PivotTables, PivotCharts
• No Outlook integration
• Yes - Create PDF Email attachment
• No replication
• Access Web apps
7. Tables
• What are the two types of
Lookup fields?
• What do Lookup fields and
relationships have to do with one
another?
8. Queries
• How do I teach AND vs. OR criteria
in a way that makes sense?
• Racetracks!
• What is a parameter query and
why will it make me look like a
genius?
9. Forms
• What is the Record Source property
and why is it important?
• What are the two personalities of a
combo box and how do I them?
• Data Entry
• Find
10. • What is the purpose of so
many views?
– Report
– Print Preview
– Layout
– Design
• Group, Sort, and Total Pane –
How do I use it?
Reports
11. Access
and the
Web
• File|New – show Access Web Apps
• Traditional database vs. Access
Web App
• Hyperlink Data type
• HTML Formatting tags
• Save to XML
• Save to HTML
12. Final
Case
Study
• Tie a form, query, and report
together
• Create a dialog box form
• Pass criteria to a query
• Build a report on the query