Getting started with Microsoft Access

This tutorial is neither complete nor comprehensive, but does illustrate some of the basic skills you need to know to construct a Microsoft Access application like the one you'll do for Assignment #1. The tutorial concentrates on the 'hows', not the 'whats' nor the 'whys'.  The latter are the focus of the course as a whole.  

The tutorial contains quite a few screen capture images to illustrate what the tool looks like during various activities.  Please be forewarned that some of the segments could take a while to upload over slow communications links.  Hopefully the wait will be worth it.

The tutorial is broken down into five sections:

  1. Creating a Database
  2. Creating Forms
  3. Creating Queries
  4. Buttons and Switchboards
  5. Macros