Access 2003 for dummies - John Kaufeld

When you hear the word "database," do your eyes glazeover? Does the mention of fields and tables make your bloodpressure skyrocket? Does the idea of entering and using hyperlinksmake you hyperventilate?

Whether you're running a business or a household . . .whether you need to be able to quickly access customer information,your recipe for chicken cacciatore, or the Little Leagueteam's records, Access 2003 holds the key. This friendlyguide unlocks the secrets of using Access 2003 to store, manage,organize, reorganize, and use data! It gives you:

• The basics of the whole database concept
• Suggestions for solving problems with Access
• What you need to know to design, build, use, and change Accesstables
• Info on the ten most common types of fields
• The scoop on using queries to unearth the answers hidingsomewhere in your data
• Guidelines for using the Access report system to make shortwork of long, previously time-consuming, reports

In the relaxed, comfortable For Dummies style, this bookhas easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and lots of screenshots. If you want to create and manage a database for a hugeauction house, this guide will get you going . . . going . .. gone. If you want to create a database for your musiccollection, it gives you the score then shows you how to useformatting and add graphics to jazz it up. You'll get thelow-down on extracting all kinds of information from databases andputting that information to practical use. You'll discoverhow to:

• Use Label Wizard to create mailing labels, file labels,shipping labels, or name tags
• Use Chart Wizard to create line charts, bar, cone, and columncharts, pie and donut charts, area charts, and XY and bubblecharts
• Use Auto Reports to create columnar or tabular reports and thenfine-tune them
• Export reports to Microsoft Word and Excel
• Get your data Web-ready and put it on the Internet in eitherstatic or dynamic form
• Build forms with Form Wizard

And speaking of high-tech fun, Access 2003 For Dummieseven tells you how to install and use speech recognition softwarewith Access 2003. So if the idea of working with databases has youtalking to yourself, this is just the book you need.