About This Course

Take control over your data! Whether you're a novice or an experienced database user, this course will show you how to harness the full power of Microsoft Access 2010. 

In these practical and project-oriented lessons, you'll learn how to use this award-winning MS Office software to create and customize tables. You'll build relationships between your tables to eliminate redundancies and slash data entry time. And you'll discover how to achieve huge reductions in data entry errors by setting default values, creating validation rules, and building input masks.  

In addition, you'll find out how to make your database more user-friendly with custom data entry forms, smart lists, and other sophisticated controls. You'll learn how to retrieve exactly what you need from your database with powerful queries and reports, and you'll even start automating routine tasks with labor-saving macros. 

By the time you've finished this course, you'll know how to create an effective database for any information you need to store, document, and manage—at home or on the job.

About The Instructor

This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Laurie Fuller. Laurie has been writing about and teaching people to use Microsoft Office for more than 15 years—including personally training thousands of students, writing hundreds of training manuals, and authoring or co-authoring more than 25 introductory and advanced books on subjects including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. Her most recent publication on Microsoft Access is Access 2010 for Dummies.  In addition to writing and teaching, Laurie runs her own firm providing training, marketing, graphic design, and web development services to clients throughout the world, with a focus on helping growing companies and non-profit organizations build their brand through effective promotions, outreach, and education. She is also active in several environmental organizations in her area.