Microsoft Access 2021 for Beginners: Master the Essentials

**This course includes downloadable instructor files and exercise files to work with and follow along.**

Take control of your data and discover the power of Access 2021, the latest on-premises release from Microsoft and the newest addition to the Access family of applications.

Microsoft Access 2021 is so much more than a way to create customizable desktop databases. It is fair to say that Access 2021 is a user-friendly tool that allows us to create business applications and templates from scratch without the need for high-level development skills.

Access 2021 allows even the novice database builder to start creating tables, forms, queries, and reports quickly. It is a full life-cycle database management tool that makes creating small to large databases easy.

In this course, we will explore the basic functionality of Access and get familiar with the terminology, the interface, and the commands. We’ll look at the available templates and build tables and populate them with data. We’ll create relationships between tables and build queries to interrogate the data. We’ll look at building nicely formatted forms so others can interact easily with our database and build custom reports to help us gain deeper insight.

This course is for the absolute beginner or anyone who is looking to refresh their basic skills. It will provide a fantastic starting point from which to build more advanced Access database knowledge.

In this course, students will learn how to:

• Explain what a relational database is

• Download and install Access 2021

• Know the differences between Access 2019 and Access 2021

• Locate, open, and save Access database templates

• Open, close, and save a blank database file

• Navigate the Access interface, ribbons, and commands

• Customize the quick access toolbar with frequently used commands

• Understand the different menu systems in Access

• Use keyboard shortcuts to navigate and execute commands

• Access the help files

• Customize Access options

• Create tables and fields

• Modify field properties

• Understand index fields and primary keys

• Create lookup menus

• Add data validation and data validation text to fields

• Import data into a table from Excel and from a text file

• Use datasheet view to manage data

• Sort and filter records in a table

• Create relationships between tables that share a common field

• Create relationships between tables using a link table

• Understand one-to-many relationships

• Create and design user-friendly forms

• Setup subforms

• Build simple and complex queries to interrogate table data

• Aggregate numeric data

• Create expressions to perform simple calculations

• Create and run a basic report

• Create a custom report

• Use form controls to add checkboxes, attachments, and option buttons to forms

• Modify a form’s design and theme

• Create a navigation form

• Export an Access database to other file formats

• Protect a database file by adding encryption and password protection

• Prevent database issues using compact and repair

• Print tables, forms, and reports.

This course includes:

1. 7 hours of video tutorials

2. 66 individual video lectures

3. Course and Exercise Files to follow along

4. Certificate of completion