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Access 2013 Part 3: Form Validation
Form validation allows you restrict even more to further decrease the amount of incorrect data. In this topic, you will use a combo box to limit the options users have for entering data.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Implement Security
Manage your database security by setting passwords, specifying startup options, hiding objects and more.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Link Tables to External Data Sources
Access includes a feature that allows you to link your tables to external data sources. One major advantage of this capability is that when those external files are updated, Access automatically sees the updates without intervention.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Manage a Database
In this topic, you'll learn two basic Access database management tasks: database backup and how to compact and repair a database.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Modify a Database Switchboard
You used Switchboard Manager to create a basic switchboard form. You can use that same tool to make some edits to the switchboard. In this topic, you will modify the switchboard.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Organize Information With Tab Pages
Tab pages or tabbed pages are an organizational unit useful for collecting and aggregating similar data onto separate forms, while enjoying the ability to switch easily among open forms via tabs.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Package a Database With a Digital Signature
A digital signature is an authentication tool that verifies the content in a file. It tells the user that the content can be trusted.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Restrict Records Using a Condition
A macro condition is an expression that enables a macro to perform a task if a specific set of circumstances exist. Conditions are usually the result of an If statement.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Set Passwords
Manage your database security by setting passwords, specifying startup options, hiding objects and more.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Set Startup Options
Setting Startup Options helps to further protect your database.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Add Controls to Forms
You add controls to forms to perform actions, to display a subset of data, to label data, to select options or to organize information.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Analyze the Performance of a Database
Access provides a tool to analyze the database and suggests possible improvements to optimize the performance of your database.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Apply Conditional Formatting
One way to make information stand out is to apply conditional formatting when specific criteria are met. In this topic, you will apply conditional formatting to your data to make it stand out in forms and reports.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Automate Data Entry Using a Macro
Making data entry easy for your users through automation not only increases the accuracy of your data but it also increases the speed at which your users can enter data.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Convert a Macro to VBA
As you learn to use macros in Access, you will also want to know how to convert a macro to VBA format.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Convert an Access Database to an ACCDE File
If you want to prevent anyone from creating or modifying forms, reports, or code in your Access database, you can convert the database to an Access Execute Only Database, or ACCDE database.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Create a Database Switchboard
A switchboard is a form that usually opens when you open a database. You can place anything you want on a switchboard, links to other forms, links to reports and control buttons to close the database, print or exit Access.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Create a Macro
Macros are pseudo-programs that perform a list of actions based on a limited set of instructions. You can use macros to perform repetitive tasks or tasks that require an action.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Create Subforms
Subforms are independent forms that you add to existing forms that hold special data or additional data that you need to work with but that you need displayed differently on the body of the main form.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Determine Object Dependency
Object dependency is when database entities (object) rely on one another for data.Object dependency in a database can become quite complex but it's necessary to understand object dependency in cases of advanced troubleshooting.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Document a Database
The Database Documenter is an automated tool to document every detail of your database schema.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Enhance Navigation of Forms
Access 2013 includes a Navigation control that makes it easy to switch between forms and reports in your database.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Field and Record Validation
Field validation will help users to enter correct data the first time around.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Split a Database for Multiple User Access
Increasing database performance for multi-user access: splitting the database in a font-end database contains the forms, queries, etc and a back-end database contains the data in tables.
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Access 2013 Part 3: Validate Data Using a Macro
Creating a macro to prompt the user to enter correct information ensures data integrity and maintains your database's value.