Access 97 for Windows for dummies /
by John Kaufeld.
- Foster City, CA : IDG Books Worldwide, c1996.
- xx, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- For dummies .
Contents
Introduction.
PART I: Which Came First: The Data or the Base? Chapter 1: The 37-Minute Overview. Chapter 2: Finding Your Way Around like a Native. Chapter 3: Calling the Online St. Bernard and Other Forms of Help.
PART II: Truly Tempting Tables. Chapter 4: Designing and Building a Home for Your Data. Chapter 5: Indexes, Keys, and Relationships: Why You Care. Chapter 6: New Data, Old Data, and Data in Need of Repair. Chapter 7: Making Your Table Think with Formats, Masks, and Validations. Chapter 8: Making Your Datasheets Dance. Chapter 9: Table Remodeling Tips for the Do-It-Yourselfer.
PART III: Finding the Ultimate Answer to Everything (Well, Not Everything). Chapter 10: Quick Searches: Find, Filter, and Sort. Chapter 11: Make a Simple Query, Get 10,000 Answers. Chapter 12: Searching a Slew of Tables. Chapter 13: Lions AND Bears OR Tigers? Oh, My! Chapter 14: Teaching Queries to Count. Chapter 15: Automated Editing for Big Changes. Chapter 16: Action Queries to the Rescue.
PART IV: Turning Your Table into a Book. Chapter 17: AutoReport: Like the Model-T, It's Clunky but It Runs. Chapter 18: Wizardly Help with Labels, Charts, and Multilevel Reports. Chapter 19: It's Amazing What a Little Formatting Can Do. Chapter 20: Headers and Footers for Groups, Pages, and Even (Egad) Whole Reports.
PART V: Wizards, Forms, and Other Mystical Stuff. Chapter 21: Spinning Your Data into (and onto) the Web. Chapter 22: Making Forms That Look Cool and Work Great. Chapter 23: If Love Is Universal, Why Can't I Export to It? Chapter 24: The Analyzer: Your Data's Dr. Freud, Dr. Watson, and Dr. Jekyll.
PART VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 25: Ten Timesaving Keyboard Shortcuts. Chapter 26: Ten Common Crises and How to Survive Them. Chapter 27: Ten Tips from the Database Nerds. Chapter 28: Ten Sights to See in Your Copious Free Time. Appendix: Installing Access 97.
Includes index.
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