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“Everything you need to master Access 2007 forms, reports, and queries.” Charles Carr, Reviews Editor, ComputorEdge Magazine Create Forms for Business Ensure Data Entry Accuracy Build Elegant Form Interfaces Collect Data Via Email Design Effective Business Reports Make an Invoice Report Create Mailing Labels Extract Data Work with Multiple Tables Calculate Discounts Analyze Data Develop your Microsoft Access expertise instantly with proven techniques Lets face it: Microsoft Access is a large, intimidating program. Most people never progress beyond creating simple tables and using wizards to build basic forms and reports. At the same time, you need information and you know that what you seek is embedded somewhere in your Access database. Without a more sophisticated knowledge of how to extract and present that data, youre forced to rely on office gurus and overworked IT people to provide canned reports or one-size-fits-all solutions. This book changes all that by giving you the skills to build efficient front-ends for data (forms), publish the results in an attractive and easy-to-read format (reports), and extract the data you need (queries). This book shuns the big Access picture and instead focuses intently on forms, reports, and queries. This in-depth approach will give you the knowledge and understanding you need to get at the data and prove the old saw that knowledge is power. · Focuses on the three technologies that you must master to get the most out of Access: forms, reports, and queries. · Avoids database theory in favor of practical know-how that you can put to use right away. · Packed full of real-world examples and techniques to help you learn and understand the importance of each section. · Covers whats new and changed in Microsoft Access 2007. Introduction 1 Part I: Creating Forms 5 Chapter 1 Creating and Using a Form 7 Chapter 2 Working with Form Controls 29 Chapter 3 Designing Forms for Efficient and Accurate Data Entry 49 Chapter 4 Designing Forms for Business Use 77 Chapter 5 Creating Specialized Forms 95 Part II: Designing and Customizing Reports 111 Chapter 6 Creating and Publishing a Report 113 Chapter 7 Designing Effective Business Reports 141 Chapter 8 Designing Advanced Reports 157 Chapter 9 Creating Specialized Reports 177 Part III: Creating Powerful Queries 197 Chapter 10 Creating a Basic Query 199 Chapter 11 Building Criteria Expressions 231 Chapter 12 Working with Multiple-Table Queries 259 Chapter 13 Creating Advanced Queries 287 Chapter 14 Creating PivotTable Queries 311 Chapter 15 Querying with SQL Statements 341 Index 361 | 
