For this week of class, we focused on different skills that are commonly used in Microsoft Access. Access if a very useful tool for the business world, almost more useful than Excel in some ways. I have used Access in other classes before in college, but it has never been as easy to use for me as Excel is. In those other classes, the lessons have been mainly following a textbook step by step, which is not an easy way to learn the program. In our lectures, watching Professor Olson work his was through the different steps was much more helpful.
Another thing that I like about Access is the different functions such as Queries, and the way that you can switch back and forth very quickly between the forms. Little things like this make it much easier for the users. Another function that I did not know was possible until browsing through different websites about Access was the ability to add bar-codes to your tables.
This photo from Barcodsewiz.com shows a table with different bar-codes for some products. This could be very useful for small businesses that do not have codes on all of their products.
In conclusion, Access is a very important tool for many businesses, large and small. I hope to learn much more about this application and how to become very proficient with it!
Thank you, Austin
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