Form Design Microsoft Access / Forms and Reports
A form appears to be the most regularly used object of a Microsoft Access database. Although there are various means of quickly creating a form, as we saw with the Form Wizard or AutoForm and their variations, at times you will need to further customize the appearance of a form to the user as this can affect the overall understanding of your product.
Subforms Microsoft Access / Forms and Reports
Relational database allows you to separate data in objects so that these objects can hold different pieces of information and make data available to other objects that need it. Sooner or later, users constantly need information held by one form while they are working on another form. There are various ways you can solve such a problem. One solution is to "embed" one form or report into another form or report.
Sectional and Tabbed Forms Microsoft Access / Forms and Reports
Many databases are made of various objects and it is not unusual for one of these objects to contain various fields. If you try to create a form for such an object, you may encounter a big real estate deficiency. Even if you decide to reduce the amount of information on a table, because you still need to follow your customer's goal, you may not have this complete liberty. Therefore, instead of deleting necessary fields, you can one of the various alternatives offered by Microsoft Access.
Windows Controls Microsoft Access / Forms and Reports
A label is a control that serves as a guide to the user. It provides a static text that the user cannot change but can read to get information about another control on the form. You can also use it to display simple information to the user. Most controls on the form are not explicit at first glance and the user would not know what they are. Therefore, you can assign a label to the control as a help to the user.
Microsoft Excel Fundamentals Microsoft Excel / Getting Started
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application. That is, it is used to create and manage lists of information. To effectively handle list-related assignments, this environment provides many more features than simply dealing with lists.
Printing Microsoft Excel / Getting Started
Printing allows you to get your work on paper. This is useful both for referencing and sharing your work. Data available on your worksheets can be explored and exploited in various areas including visual presentation or book review.
Data Entry Microsoft Excel / Getting Started
As you are aware, when Microsoft Excel starts, it opens a workbook made of three worksheets. A worksheet is simply made of cells that are patiently waiting for you to enter data.
Financial Functions Microsoft Excel / Functions and Formula
Microsoft Excel provides a series of functions destined to perform various types of financially related operations. These functions use common factors depending on the value that is being calculated. Many of these functions deal with investments or loan financing.
Data Analysis With Charts Microsoft Excel / Charts and Graphs
Charts are used to analyze data graphically. Good created and formatted charts can help people and businesses make decisions based on the impact that their images provide to the users. Microsoft Excel is equipped with the Chart Wizard that allows you to create and format a chart to suit almost any scenario or need.
Formatting Cells Contents Microsoft Excel / General Formatting
When reviewing cells, we found out that a cell doesn't have dimensions of its own. Its width is imposed by its parent column and its height is set on its parent row. All of the cells we have used so far were considered individually. Microsoft Excel allows you to combine various cells in a group. Learn how to: align a cell and work with alignment property page, merge a cell, identation cell's content, customize the cell's background and borders.