MS Access Level 1 Basics

Course Overview

This introduction course provides the basic concepts and skills to start using Microsoft Access 2019: How to navigate the Access interface, and how to create and modify tables, queries, forms, and reports.

You will benefit most from this course if you want to gain a basic understanding of Access and be able to design and create simple tables, queries, forms, and reports. The course assumes you know how to use a computer and that you’re familiar with Microsoft Windows. It does not assume that you’ve used a different version of Access or another database system before.

Is this the right course for me?

Our Relational Database Design and Relational Database Management courses are meant for students who want to build Access databases from the ground up. The first course is two days and includes in-depth, hands-on exercises that teach effective relational database development. Any student who completes these courses will be able to create and maintain a database for a small business or other organization.

Level 1 and Level 2, on the other hand, are intended for students who will be working with existing databases rather than building them from scratch. In other words, these courses are best suited to database end users rather than database designers/managers.

Course Outline

Module 1: Database fundamentals

• Understanding general database terms
• Relational databases
• Access interface and objects

Module 2: Tables

• Creating tables
• Creating fields
• Data Validation
• Relationships and keys

Module 3: Queries

• Creating basic queries
• Modifying queries
• Using calculated fields

Module 4: Forms 

• Creating simple forms
• Form design
• Form controls

Module 5: Reports

• Creating Reports
• Report controls
• Formatting reports