Description
The New Perspectives Series’ critical-thinking, problem-solving approach is the ideal way to prepare students to transcend point-and-click skills and take advantage of all that Microsoft Office 2013 has to offer.
In developing the New Perspectives Series, our goal was to create books that give students the software concepts and practical skills they need to succeed beyond the classroom. We’ve updated our proven case-based pedagogy with more practical content to make learning skills more meaningful to students.
With the New Perspectives Series, students understand why they are learning what they are learning, and are fully prepared to apply their skills to real-life situations.
About This Book
This book provides complete coverage of Microsoft Access 2013, and includes the following:
• Detailed, hands-on instruction of Microsoft Access 2013, including creating and maintaining a database, querying a database, creating forms and reports, integrating Access with other programs, creating macros, and securing a database
• Coverage of important database concepts, including guidelines for designing databases and setting field properties, defining table relationships, object dependencies, normalization, and Access naming conventions
New for this edition!
• Each tutorial has been updated with new case scenarios throughout, which provide a rich and realistic context for students to apply the concepts and skills presented.
• A new Troubleshoot type of Case Problem, in which certain steps of the exercise require students to identify and correct errors—which are intentionally placed in the files students work with—promotes problem solving and critical thinking.
• The content has been developed so that students and instructors can work seamlessly on either the Windows 7 or Windows 8 operating system.