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ISBN: 9781449382377 [M] www.it-ebooks.info iii Table of Contents The Missing Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part One: Storing Information in Tables Chapter 1: Creating Your First Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Understanding Access Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Getting Started with Your First Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Understanding Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Creating a Simple Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Editing a Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Saving Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Making Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Saving a Database with a Different Name or Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Shrinking a Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Opening Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Designating a Database as Trusted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Opening Recent Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Opening More Than One Database at Once . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Opening a Database Created in an Older Version of Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The Navigation Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Browsing Tables with the Navigation Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Managing Database Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Chapter 2: Building Smarter Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Understanding Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Design View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Organizing and Describing Your Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 How Updates Work in Design View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 www.it-ebooks.info iv    Access Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Memo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Currency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Date/Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Yes/No . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Hyperlink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 AutoNumber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Calculated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 The Primary Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Creating Your Own Primary Key Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Six Principles of Database Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 1. Choose Good Field Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 2. Break Down Your Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 3. Include All the Details in One Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 4. Avoid Duplicating Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 5. Avoid Redundant Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 6. Include an ID Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Chapter 3: Mastering the Datasheet: Sorting, Searching, Filtering, and More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Datasheet Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Formatting the Datasheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Resizing Rows and Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Freezing Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Datasheet Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Sorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Advanced Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 The Spell Checker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 AutoCorrect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Special Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Printing the Datasheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Print Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Fine-Tuning a Printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Chapter 4: Blocking Bad Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Data Integrity Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Preventing Blank Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Setting Default Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Preventing Duplicate Values with Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 www.it-ebooks.info v    Input Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Using a Readymade Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Creating Your Own Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Validation Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Applying a Field Validation Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Writing a Field Validation Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Creating a Table Validation Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Lookups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Creating a Simple Lookup with Fixed Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Adding New Values to Your Lookup List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Chapter 5: Linking Tables with Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Relationship Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Redundant Data vs. Related Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Matching Fields: The Relationship Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Linking with the ID Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 The Parent-Child Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Using a Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Defining a Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Editing Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Referential Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Navigating a Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Lookups with Related Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 More Exotic Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 One-to-One Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Many-to-Many Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Relationship Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 The Music School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 The Chocolate Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Part Two: Manipulating Data with Queries Chapter 6: Queries That Select Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Query Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Creating Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Creating a Query in Design View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Creating a Simple Query with the Query Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Understanding the SQL View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Queries and Related Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Joining Tables in a Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Outer Joins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Multiple Joins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 www.it-ebooks.info vi    Chapter 7: Essential Query Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Calculated Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Defining a Calculated Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Simple Math with Numeric Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Expressions with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Query Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Using a Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 The Expression Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Formatting Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 More Mathematical Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Text Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Date Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Dealing with Blank Values (Nulls) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Summarizing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Grouping a Totals Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Joins in a Totals Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Query Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Chapter 8: Queries That Update Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Understanding Action Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Testing Action Queries (Carefully) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 The Action Query Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Update Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Append Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Creating an Append (or Make-Table) Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Getting AutoNumbers to Start at Values Other Than 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Delete Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Tutorial: Flagging Out-of-Stock Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Finding Out-of-Stock Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Putting the Orders on Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Chapter 9: Analyzing Data with Crosstab Queries and Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Understanding Crosstab Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Creating Crosstab Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Creating a Crosstab Query with the Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Creating a Crosstab Query from Scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Building a Pivot Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Manipulating a Pivot Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Creating a Calculated Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Hiding and Showing Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Filtering Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 Pivot Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Choosing a Chart Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Printing a Pivot Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 www.it-ebooks.info vii    Part Three: Printing Reports Chapter 10: Creating Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Report Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 Creating a One-Click Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Building a Report in Layout View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 The Many Views of a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Rearranging a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Printing, Previewing, and Exporting a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Previewing a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Export Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Exporting a Report to a PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 Exporting a Report to a Different Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 Formatting a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 Applying a Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 Formatting Columns and Column Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 Conditional Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Data Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 Filtering and Sorting a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 Filtering a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Sorting a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 Chapter 11: Designing Advanced Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Improving Reports in Design View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 The Design View Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Understanding Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 Moving Fields Out of a Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Adding More Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 Creating a Report from Scratch (in Design View) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 The Report Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 The Label Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Fine-Tuning Reports with Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 Modifying Common Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Grouping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 Report Grouping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 Fine-Tuning with the “Group, Sort, and Total” Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Multiple Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 Part Four: Building a User Interface with Forms Chapter 12: Creating Simple Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 Creating Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 Building a Simple Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 Using AutoNumber Fields in Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 Showing Pictures from a Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 www.it-ebooks.info viii    Using Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 Finding and Editing a Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 Adding a Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 Deleting a Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 Printing Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 Sorting and Filtering in a Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Sorting a Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 Filtering a Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 Using the Filter by Form Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Saving Filters for the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 Creating Fancy Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384 Manipulating Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Liberating Controls from Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 Using Tabular Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 Showing Multiple Records in any Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 Split Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 More Useful Form Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 The Form Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Chapter 13: Designing Advanced Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 Customizing Forms in Design View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 Form Sections: The Different Parts of Your Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 Adding Controls to Your Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 The Control Gallery: A Quick Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 Arranging Controls on Your Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 Anchoring: Automatically Resizing Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 Tab Order: Making Keyboard Navigation Easier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Taking Control of Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Locking Down Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Prevent Errors with Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 Performing Calculations with Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 Organizing with Tab Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 Going Places with Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Showing Web Pages with the Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426 Navigating with Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 Performing Actions with Command Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 Forms and Linked 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