Database Reference
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Access 2013
IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO
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Identify new features of Access 2013.
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Work in the Access 2013 user interface.
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Understand database concepts.
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Explore tables, forms, queries, and reports.
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Preview and print database objects.
This chapter introduces Microsoft Access 2013 and is designed to serve different purposes
for different readers, depending on prior knowledge of this program and other Microsoft
Office 2013 programs.
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If you are a beginning Access user, you might want to skip the lists of new features
and start with “Working in the Access 2013 user interface.”
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If you have used other Office 2007 or Office 2010 programs but have not worked with
Access before, you might want to skip down to “Understanding database concepts.”
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If you have upgraded to Access 2013 from Access 2003, you might want to read as far
as the end of “Working in the Access 2013 user interface” and then skip to Chapter 2,
“Create databases and simple tables.”
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If you have upgraded to Access 2013 from Access 2007 or Access 2010, you might
be interested in the new features that have been introduced in this version of the
program, but you might not need to work through the exercises in the rest of this
chapter.
Throughout this topic, you'll be working with databases that contain information about the
employees, products, suppliers, and customers of a fictional company. As you complete the
exercises, you will develop an assortment of tables, forms, queries, and reports that can be
used to enter, edit, and manipulate the information in a database in many ways.
