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Absolute New User
Hi Everyone,
I usually work with Excel, but I've been told that Access is more appropriate for the type of work I do. I have no idea of how Access works, can anyone help me by suggesting a book or maybe a website where I can learn how to use Access. Thank You ALBERT |
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Absolute New User
I was in the same boat a week ago. You don't say where you are/what is
available to you, but the Access For Dummies begins with very basic stuff very clearly written; and there's a DVD series called "Professor Teaches" that does a pretty good job, and a box of 52 "courses" on all the main Office components for 2000, XP, and 2003, as well as Windows XP, Photoshop, and various other stuff is currently selling for $9.97 at J & R (in New York City); I assume it's also available at the website JR.com (the Office2007 edition costs more). The box includes all the programs on 1 DVD and on 10 CDs On Mar 23, 1:32*am, albertmb wrote: Hi Everyone, I usually work with Excel, but I've been told that Access is more appropriate for the type of work I do. I have no idea of how Access works, can anyone help me by suggesting a book or maybe a website where I can learn how to use Access. Thank You ALBERT |
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Absolute New User
Checkout
http://www.cardaconsultants.com/en/m...&id=0000000008 there you will find a listing of several very good websites, books, etc. -- Hope this helps, Daniel Pineault For Access Tips and Examples: http://www.cardaconsultants.com/en/msaccess.php If this post was helpful, please rate it by using the vote buttons. "albertmb" wrote: Hi Everyone, I usually work with Excel, but I've been told that Access is more appropriate for the type of work I do. I have no idea of how Access works, can anyone help me by suggesting a book or maybe a website where I can learn how to use Access. Thank You ALBERT |
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Absolute New User
If you are working in Access 2003 or 2007, I'd suggest:
Microsoft Office Access 2003 Inside Out by John Viescas or: Microsoft Office Access 2007 Inside Out by John Viescas and Jeff Conrad -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP http://www.datastrat.com http://www.mvps.org/access http://www.accessmvp.com "albertmb" wrote in message ... Hi Everyone, I usually work with Excel, but I've been told that Access is more appropriate for the type of work I do. I have no idea of how Access works, can anyone help me by suggesting a book or maybe a website where I can learn how to use Access. Thank You ALBERT |
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Absolute New User
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:32:00 -0700, albertmb
wrote: Hi Everyone, I usually work with Excel, but I've been told that Access is more appropriate for the type of work I do. I have no idea of how Access works, can anyone help me by suggesting a book or maybe a website where I can learn how to use Access. Thank You ALBERT In addition (and somewhat overlapping) the other suggestions in this thread: Jeff Conrad's resources page: http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/acc...resources.html The Access Web resources page: http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html A free tutorial written by Crystal (MS Access MVP): http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html MVP Allen Browne's tutorials: http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials Note that Excel and Access are VERY different, although a table datasheet looks deceptively like a spreadsheet. It ISN'T a spreadsheet and it doesn't work like one, and you'll need to do some pretty serious mental gearshifting to get used to it - but you'll find that there are many things that you can do much better in Access than in Excel (and that the reverse is also true!) -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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Absolute New User
Hi Everyone,
I, too am new Access user. I started last year and did some basics but then dropped it because I got too busy but now would like to add it to my resume as a skill (intermediate hopefully). I found a website called Access 2003 in Pictures which has been helpful because it is so visual. Starts with the very basics. Starting with a book that only has text last year was a lot harder (though doable). I have the MS Office Specialist book and it complements all the other visual tutorials I can find. Whoever said it is nothing like Excel was right. Definitely apples and oranges. Below are a couple of websites to copy/paste. http://inpics.net/tutorials/access2003/basics57.html http://www.teacherclick.com/ (grammar is not up to snuff but the lessons are quite good) I will be looking at the websites provided here. Good luck Albert. I'm sure I'll find help here too. albertmb wrote: Hi Everyone, I usually work with Excel, but I've been told that Access is more appropriate for the type of work I do. I have no idea of how Access works, can anyone help me by suggesting a book or maybe a website where I can learn how to use Access. Thank You ALBERT |
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Absolute New User
Thank you all for your suggestions. I realy appreciate it.
Regards Albert "grammatim" wrote: I was in the same boat a week ago. You don't say where you are/what is available to you, but the Access For Dummies begins with very basic stuff very clearly written; and there's a DVD series called "Professor Teaches" that does a pretty good job, and a box of 52 "courses" on all the main Office components for 2000, XP, and 2003, as well as Windows XP, Photoshop, and various other stuff is currently selling for $9.97 at J & R (in New York City); I assume it's also available at the website JR.com (the Office2007 edition costs more). The box includes all the programs on 1 DVD and on 10 CDs On Mar 23, 1:32 am, albertmb wrote: Hi Everyone, I usually work with Excel, but I've been told that Access is more appropriate for the type of work I do. I have no idea of how Access works, can anyone help me by suggesting a book or maybe a website where I can learn how to use Access. Thank You ALBERT |
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"pivot view" Absolute New User
I've done the first couple of units of "Professor Teaches Access
2003," and it introduces "Pivot View" quite early on. The topic is barely mentioned in For Dummies and other sources -- I wonder if the "oldbies" can say whether it's a useful feature? It appears to be a device for generating a bar graph, but Access data don't seem particularly amenable to bar graphing. On Mar 23, 2:04*am, grammatim wrote: I was in the same boat a week ago. You don't say where you are/what is available to you, but the Access For Dummies begins with very basic stuff very clearly written; and there's a DVD series called "Professor Teaches" that does a pretty good job, and a box of 52 "courses" on all the main Office components for 2000, XP, and 2003, as well as Windows XP, Photoshop, and various other stuff is currently selling for $9.97 at J & R (in New York City); I assume it's also available at the website JR.com (the Office2007 edition costs more). The box includes all the programs on 1 DVD and on 10 CDs On Mar 23, 1:32*am, albertmb wrote: Hi Everyone, I usually work with Excel, but I've been told that Access is more appropriate for the type of work I do. I have no idea of how Access works, can anyone help me by suggesting a book or maybe a website where I can learn how to use Access. |
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"pivot view" Absolute New User
More info here. Looks very neat.
http://ittraining.lse.ac.uk/Document...htm#Pivot_Tabl es Evi "grammatim" wrote in message ... I've done the first couple of units of "Professor Teaches Access 2003," and it introduces "Pivot View" quite early on. The topic is barely mentioned in For Dummies and other sources -- I wonder if the "oldbies" can say whether it's a useful feature? It appears to be a device for generating a bar graph, but Access data don't seem particularly amenable to bar graphing. On Mar 23, 2:04 am, grammatim wrote: I was in the same boat a week ago. You don't say where you are/what is available to you, but the Access For Dummies begins with very basic stuff very clearly written; and there's a DVD series called "Professor Teaches" that does a pretty good job, and a box of 52 "courses" on all the main Office components for 2000, XP, and 2003, as well as Windows XP, Photoshop, and various other stuff is currently selling for $9.97 at J & R (in New York City); I assume it's also available at the website JR.com (the Office2007 edition costs more). The box includes all the programs on 1 DVD and on 10 CDs On Mar 23, 1:32 am, albertmb wrote: Hi Everyone, I usually work with Excel, but I've been told that Access is more appropriate for the type of work I do. I have no idea of how Access works, can anyone help me by suggesting a book or maybe a website where I can learn how to use Access. |
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