Re: Learning Microsoft ACCESS

Subject: Re: Learning Microsoft ACCESS
From: Peter <pnewman1 -at- HOME -dot- COM>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 07:09:32 -0400

This site may help you. the training is basic, accurate, helpful and
free:
http://www.lgta.org/

HTH
Peter

Bonnie Granat wrote:
>
> Thanks to each person who wrote me offlist and on.
>
> I am one of the editors charged with learning ACCESS (MA). Our manager was
> on vacation this week and left instructions for each editor about the
week's
> priorities. Learning MA was marked "Critical!".
>
> I and the other editor similarly charged spent some time trying to make
> sense of MA by using Help, beginning a database, and otherwise looking
> around. However, both of us are only somewhat conversant with how
relational
> databases actually work.
>
> We need to do everything but write VBA at this point. It didn't take us
long
> to see that MA hides any helpful information for beginners. While the
visual
> introduction tends to give the impression that the program is new-user
> friendly, the regular Help appears to be talking to highly experienced
> people.
>
> Someone said a half hour would be needed to get the basic idea, but I
still
> don't even know where to LOOK to find information about how tables should
be
> set up.
>
> My goal in posting was to have some hard information from MA users about:
>
> -Whether it is reasonable to learn it on our own (both of us never worked
> with databases before and have only fuzzy ideas about RDBs).
>
> -Whether it is _possible_ to learn it on our own in a hurry (which is what
> "Critical!" implied to me.
>
> -Whether we need to tell our manager that the most cost-efficient method
of
> learning MA is taking a course, buying a book, or something else.
>
> ---------------------------
> I have MA for W95 at home and use 97 at work. The Help seems very similar
> and I am at home now looking for some instructions on how to design tables
> (rationale -- _something_). No success so far and I'm not learning other
> things while I'm looking because I don't know what they are talking about!
>
> Thanks,
> Bonnie Granat
> -
>
>


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