Microsoft® Office Access® 2010: Level 2 (Second Edition)
Course Specifications
Course number: 084307
Course length: 1.0 day(s)
Certification: MOS: Microsoft Office Access 2010 Exam 77–885
Course Description
Course Objective: You will improve and customize tables, queries, forms and reports,
and share Access data with other applications.
Target Student: This course is designed for individuals who wish to learn intermediate-level
operations of the Microsoft® Office Access® program. The target students
may also include individuals whose job responsibilities include creating databases,
tables, and relationships, as well as working with and revising intermediate-level
queries, forms, and reports. It also introduces them to integrating Access
data with other applications such as Microsoft Office Word or Excel.
Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend that you first take
one of Element K’s introductory courses, such as Microsoft®
Office Access® 2010 : Level 1 (Second Edition), or have equivalent knowledge and skills.
Certification
This course is one of a series of Element K courseware
titles that addresses Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification skill
sets. The MOS and certification program is for individuals who use Microsoft's
business desktop software and who seek recognition for their expertise with
specific Microsoft products.
Hardware Requirements
For this course, you will need one computer for each student
and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum
hardware configuration:
- 1 GHz Pentium-class processor or faster.
- Minimum 256 MB of RAM. 1 GB of RAM is recommended.
- 20 GB hard disk or larger. (You should have at least 1 GB
of free hard disk space available for Office installation.)
- A DVD-ROM drive.
- A keyboard and mouse or other pointing device.
- 1024 x 768 resolution monitor recommended.
- Network cards and cabling for local network access.
- Internet access. (Contact your local network administrator.)
- Printer (optional) or an installed printer driver. (Printers
are not required; however, each PC must have an installed printer driver to
use Print Preview.)
- Projection system to display the instructor’s computer
screen.
Software Requirements
Each computer requires the following software:
- Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2010 Edition
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack
3
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- streamline data entry and maintain data integrity.
- join tables to retrieve data from unrelated tables.
- create flexible queries to retrieve data and modify tables.
- improve the functionality of Access forms.
- customize reports to organize the displayed information
and produce specific print layouts.
- share data between Access and other applications.
Course Content
- Lesson 1: Controlling Data Entry
- Topic 1A: Constrain Data Entry Using Field Properties
- Topic 1B: Establish Data Entry Formats for Entering Field Values
- Topic 1C: Create a List of Values for a Field
- Lesson 2: Joining Tables
- Topic 2A: Create Query Joins
- Topic 2B: Join Tables That Have No Common Fields
- Topic 2C: Relate Data Within a Table
- Lesson 3: Creating Flexible Queries
- Topic 3A: Set the Select Query Properties
- Topic 3B: Retrieve Records Based on Input Criteria
- Topic 3C: Create Action Queries
- Lesson 4: Improving Forms
- Topic 4A: Restrict Data Entry in Forms
- Topic 4B: Organize Information with Tab Pages
- Topic 4C: Add a Command Button to a Form
- Topic 4D: Create a Subform
- Topic 4E: Display a Summary of Data in a Form
- Topic 4F: Change the Display of Data Conditionally
- Lesson 5: Customizing Reports
- Topic 5A: Organize Report Information
- Topic 5B: Format Reports
- Topic 5C: Control Report Pagination
- Topic 5D: Add a Calculated Field to a Report
- Topic 5E: Add a Subreport to an Existing Report
- Topic 5F: Create a Mailing Label Report
- Lesson 6: Sharing Data Across Applications
- Topic 6A: Import Data into Access
- Topic 6B: Export Data to Text File Formats
- Topic 6C: Export Access Data to Excel
- Topic 6D: Create a Mail Merge
Appendix A: Navigation
Forms
Appendix B: Microsoft Office Access 2010 Exam 77–885