Raveendiran RR said:
I'm a novice user of acess 2007. Can someone give me some links or
material using which i can learn the basics of access ...
In today's homepage* at
http://office.microsoft.com/ along the bottom,
you'll see links by subject. Click on the one entitled "Office training
courses", under the heading "Training". That will take you to a page
entitled "Training" and aproximately in the middle of the page, you'll see
two headings "Browse 2007 Office Courses" and "Browse 2003 Office
Courses" -- pick the appropriate one (use 2003 for any version previous to
2007), and click the entry for Access 2007 or Access 2003. I chose Access
2003, which leads to a list of 18 Access 2003 courses at the beginning and
intermediate levels -- I've heard very good feedback from people at those
levels who used them. (I wouldn't be a good judge as I passed those levels
in Access' early days.)
* The webpages at
http://www.microsoft.com change as often as the
web designer has breakthrough ideas on how to provide you with
a richer user experience. It makes for nice-looking webpages, but
means that to give you stepwise instructions on using them, we have
to go and execute the steps so our instructions will work with the
most recent updates. If these don't work for someone, just assume
that the Microsoft web designer had another breakthrough idea or
few, after publication of this post. Thus, my caution, YMMV.
The Access 2007 product has a much-changed user interface, and while most of
the underlying information in the Access 2003 courses will still apply, the
"how-to-use" instructions will be useless with Access 2007. So for Access
2007, on the Training Page, choose Access 2007. There are only 9 courses
available, so far, for Access 2007, but they'll give you a good start.
Self-study texts are another source:
Microsoft Access xxxx Step by Step, from Microsoft Press, is a good start
for the raw novice or casual end-user.
Using Microsoft Access xxxx - Special Edition, by Roger Jennings, published
by Que, starts from the beginning and goes deeper than some "beginner books"
Access 2003 Inside Out, by John Viescas, and Access 2007 Inside Out, by John
Viescas and Jeff Conrad, from Microsoft Press, are good books with thorough
coverage, and also go deeper than most.
Microsoft Access xxxx Developer's Handbook, by Litwin, Getz, et al,
published by Sybex, is "The Book" that Access Developers covet.
Unfortunately, no new edition has been published since the 2002 edition;
fortunately, the information in the 2002 edition (in two volumes) applies
almost entirely to 2003 as well, and much of it to previous versions.
There's a list of useful resources (websites, many with examples) on my user
group's page at
http://sp.ntpcug.org/accesssig/default.aspx.
These will give you enough reading for quite a while and if you really learn
everything in these, you'll have a very good understanding.
Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
