Access 97 for Windows for dummies / by John Kaufeld.

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.