Microsoft Access O365 Level 3

Course Number: 091047

Course Length: 1 day Course

Description Overview: 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. Does this content need to be added?

Course Objectives: 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.

Target Student: Students taking this course are database administrators or prospective database administrators who have experience working with Access 2016 and need to learn advanced skills. 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 Logical Operations courses:

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

Course Content 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