Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 3 Training
You’ve covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® Access®, 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 multiple-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separates database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers.
Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 3
Course Overview
This course is the third part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform basic database design and development in Access®. In this course, you will manage an Access® database and add complex database features to improve its usability, efficiency, performance, and security.
You will:
- Share data across applications
- Use action, unmatched, and duplicate queries to manage data
- Create complex reports and forms
- Use macros to improve user interface design
- Use VBA to extend database capabilities
Perform database management tasks such as backup, compacting, repairing, performance analysis, checking object dependencies, and documenting
Implement security strategies and distribute a database to multiple users
Course Outline
- Lesson 1: Importing and Exporting Table Data
- Import and Link Data
- Export Data
- Create a Mail Merge
- Lesson 2: Using Queries to Manage Data
- Create Action Queries
- Create Unmatched and Duplicate Queries
- Lesson 3: Creating Complex Reports and Forms
- Create Subreports
- Create a Navigation Form
- Show Details in Subforms and Popup Forms
- Lesson 4: Creating Access Macros
- Create a Standalone Macro to Automate Repetitive Tasks
- Create a Macro to Program a User Interface Component
- Filter Records by Using a Condition
- Create a Data Macro
- Lesson 5: Using VBA to Extend Database Capabilities
- Introduction to VBA
- Use VBA with Form Controls
- Lesson 6: Managing a Database
- Back Up a Database
- Manage Performance Issues
- Document a Database
- Lesson 7: Distributing and Securing a Database
- Split a Database for Multiple-User Access
- Implement Security
- Convert an Access Database to an ACCDE File
- Package a Database with a Digital Signature
Intended Audience
Students taking this course are database administrators or prospective database administrators who have experience working with Access® for Microsoft 365™ and need to learn advanced skills.
Prerequisites
To ensure your success in this course, you should have experience working with Access®, including a working knowledge of database design and creation, form design and creation, report design and creation, and a working knowledge of database querying and the various table relationships.
You can obtain this level of skills and knowledge by taking the following Logical Operations courses:
- Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 1
- Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 2
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Subject: Request for Business Applications training from Applied Technology Academy
[Decision Maker Name],
I'm writing to request time and budget approval to complete Applied Technology Academy's course, Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 3 Training. The information below outlines how this training benefits our organization, the tasks I'll be able to perform after completing it, and relevant cost and funding details.
Course Description
You’ve covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® Access®, 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 multiple-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separates database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers. Applied Technology Academy is an award-winning, SBA-certified woman-owned training provider (est. 2008) whose instructors are active practitioners; the course is hands-on with virtual labs and a learn-by-doing methodology.
Course Objectives
Once I've completed the course, I'll have hands-on, job-ready skills in business applications that I can apply immediately to our work.
Expected Organizational Benefits
After completing this course, I will be better equipped to apply these skills directly to our projects, reduce our reliance on outside expertise, strengthen our team's capabilities, and share what I learn with colleagues.
Expected Cost & Funding
Course fee: [request an itemized quote at the link below]. Applied Technology Academy supports multiple funding paths that may reduce or cover this cost: GSA MAS purchasing and government purchase orders, military credentialing funding (Army CA, AF COOL, CG COOL), VA GI Bill and VR&E, ATA Flexible Spending, and student financing. Private team cohorts are available if colleagues should attend with me.
Conclusion
This training provides practical, hands-on experience I can apply immediately to strengthen our work in business applications. Additional course information is available at https://appliedtechnologyacademy.com/microsoft-training/microsoft-access-for-office-365-part-3/.
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