How to get started of Microsoft Access??

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Al Campagna

xuanqingzi,
Purchase an Access book for the version you're using. As a beginner, most any book
will do. Amazon includes user ratings for all it's books, and a popular, and highly rated
beginner book should be easy to find. Amazon also allows you to see the back cover of the
book, where, usually... there is a Beginner/Intermediate/Expert rating. Pay particular
attention to information on the "general concepts" of what a relational database is,
Normalization and data organization, table design and table relationships.

But... no "book" is the solution to learning Access. The main ingredient is "sweat
equity". Get in there, and start building small apps... perhaps something you might use
yourself, like an address application, or a CD/DVD database, etc... etc...

IMHO, the most important aspect in learning Access (or any database development
application) is not the "mechanics" of the user interface with the data, (forms, queries,
reports.. etc) but a good understanding of table structure, table design, and
relationships, and how that proper design will bring data together to create data
solutions and data analysis.
If there any community colleges in your area, I would suggest taking an introductory
course, (if not Access per se, any general database development course will do) primarily
to understand the basics of "relational" databases, and database design.
Building forms, queries, reports, and coding is more or less a "mechanical" process,
that most folks will learn over time... but those tools rely on a solid foundation of good
data organization and good table design.
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hth
Al Campagna . Candia Computer Consulting . Candia, NH USA
Microsoft Access MVP
http://home.comcast.net/~cccsolutions

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