About this Course

You've covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® Office Access® 2016, 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 multi-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separate database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers. Today's training, added to that which you've gained from the Microsoft® Office Access® 2016: Part 1 and Microsoft® Office Access® 2016: Part 2 courses, rounds out your Access education and provides you with marketable job skills. 

Audience Profile

Students taking this course are database administrators or prospective database administrators who have experience working with Access 2016 and need to learn advanced skills. 

At Course Completion

In this course, you will learn to create and manage a fundamental Access 2016 database.
You will:

• Customize a form layout to improve usability and efficiency of data entry.
• Share data across applications.
• Use macros to improve user interface design.
• Use VBA to enhance tasks.
• Organize data into appropriate tables to ensure data dependency and minimize redundancy.
• Lock down and prepare a database for distribution to multiple users.
• Create and modify a database switchboard and set the startup options.

Prerequisites

To ensure your success in your course you should have experience working with Microsoft Access 2016, including a working knowledge of database design and creation, form design and creation, report design and creation, a working knowledge of database querying and the various table relationships. You can obtain this level of skill and knowledge by taking the following courses:

• Microsoft® Office Access® 2016: Part 1
• Microsoft® Office Access® 2016: Part 2

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Implementing Advanced Form Design

• Topic A: Add Controls to Forms
• Topic B: Enhance Navigation and Organization of Forms
• Topic C: Apply Conditional Formatting

Lesson 2: Sharing Data Across Applications

• Topic A: Import Data into Access
• Topic B: Export Access Data
• Topic C: Link Tables to External Data Sources
• Topic D: Create a Mail Merge

Lesson 3: Using Macros to Improve User Interface Design

• Topic A: Create a Macro
• Topic B: Restrict Records Using a Condition
• Topic C: Validate Data Using a Macro
• Topic D: Automate Data Entry Using a Macro

Lesson 4: Using VBA

• Topic A: Getting Started with VBA
• Topic B: Enhance Access Using VBA

Lesson 5: Using Advanced Database Management

• Topic A: Manage a Database
• Topic B: Determine Object Dependency
• Topic C: Document a Database

Lesson 6: Distributing and Securing a Database

• Topic A: Splitting 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

Lesson 7: Managing Switchboards

• Topic A: Create a Database Switchboard
• Topic B: Modify a Database Switchboard
• Topic C: Set Startup Options