A lot of people prefer storing their data in databases instead of flat files and there are many reasons for this. One of the reasons is that data can be found and grouped much better, when stored in a database. The capability to extract data out of the database depends on the possibility to structure [...]

One of the many useful values of the Microsoft Access database is the possibility to create reports. There are two basic report formats in Access 2007. They are tabular and columnar formats. Access report in tabular version looks a lot like Excel 2007 data sheet or the one from another spreadsheet programs. As for [...]

Microsoft Office gave us many useful applications and Access is probably the hardest one to master. It is the application that often requires outside training in order to use it effectively. It is not that hard to use Word, Excel or other MS Office applications, but even if you are an experienced computer user, you [...]

Visual Basic for Applications or VBA is a programming language driven by event. It can be used in Microsoft Access application and can help you control your database even more. It is great to use VBA, when you work with dialogue boxes or custom forms. With VBA you can create forms with much better interface [...]

After you finish your Microsoft Access training, you return to your work place, confident in your skills to create a powerful database, which will help you perform your job easier. But very soon you find out that working with the database in the classroom and at your work place is completely different and that it [...]

Microsoft Access has many useful objects and one of them is macro. Macro adds more functionality and control to your Access database. You can create macros to perform almost any task in your database and it is not that hard. Using macros is the next step of using building and designing your database after mastering [...]

If you want to create the best possible Microsoft Access database, then this article might be useful to you. The items described in this article have been proved to be the main causes of slow performance, user difficulties, errors and data corruption in databases. Avoiding these mistakes will help you prevent minor or major database [...]

Sometimes medical office database installation can be a real pain for physicians and not because they don’t want to store their medical records electronically, but because most database software packages are very expensive and too hard to understand. But it doesn’t have to be this way. You can create medical office database system, which is [...]

Even though Microsoft Access makes it easy for many users to develop applications, very often you need to develop something more robust and go beyond the database basics. MS Access has special wizards and design tools, which you can use to create some simple and fairly nice applications. But if you are looking for more [...]

Many Access database users consider creating a form quite easy. But, unfortunately, not every user is aware that each form also has property settings, which we can changed to control form’s look and behavior. In this article you will find out how to manage form’s properties from a property sheet. You will also learn some [...]