Article Index
Microsoft Access Tutorial
Queries
Creating A Database
Tables
Creating Tables
Queries
Forms In Microsoft Access
Reports In Microsoft Access
Data Access Pages
Controlling The User's Input
Subdatasheets
Designing Forms
Exploring And Analyzing Data
Tables Looks
Design And Exploration
Forms Design Propertie
Controlling Data Output
Microsoft Access Controls
Design And Improvements
Importing And Exporting Data
Macros
Switchboards

Forms:

Tables are used to create the data in your database. Sometimes, they are not very cute, as far as the users are concerned. Forms are windows objects used to view and/or enter data in your database.

A form can combine data that is part of one or more tables or queries. Forms are the window interfaces that you usually will ask your users will access when editing data in your database.

Reports:

A report in the organized document that you will print from your data. A report can include different parts or details about your database; it includes data from a table or a query, it could also get its data from various tables, queries, forms, or data that is calculated from other data coming from different tables or forms.

Pages:

New to Microsoft Access 2000, Data Access Pages allow you to publish your forms as web pages on the Internet or on an intranet.

Macros:

Using Microsoft Access, you can customize certain behaviors of your application. Some of these behaviors can be automated through a combination of buttons. For example, you might want to open one document (form) from another. You can use macros to do that; in this case, you would not have to write code.

Modules:

Modules are pieces of code used to impose particular behaviors to your application to make it better. They are written in Microsoft Visual Basic. Modules are more flexible and extensive than macros, although they are usually written for various and particular circumstances. One example is to print a receipt after a customer has bought paint in a store.

Macros and Visual Basic code can be used on the same application. Sometimes you will prefer one to the other, and sometimes you will stick to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).