Although many people rarely go from Excel into Access or vice versa, you should know that Microsoft actually designed these applications to work together. In this book, you’ll discover how Access benefits from Excel’s flexible presentation layer and versatile analysis capabilities, while Access’s relational database structure and robust querying tools enhance Excel. Once you learn to make the two work together, you’ll find that your team’s productivity is the real winner.
In a corporate setting, the Microsoft Office Suite is an invaluable set of applications. One of Offices' biggest advantages is that its applications can work together to share information, produce reports, and so on. The problem is, there isn't much documentation on their cross-usage. Until now. Introducing Integrating Excel and Access, the unique reference that shows you how to combine the strengths of Microsoft Excel with those of Microsoft Access. In particular, the book explains how the powerful analysis tools of Excel can work in concert with the structured storage and more powerful querying of Access. The results that these two applications can produce together are virtually impossible to achieve with one program separately. But the book isn't just limited to Excel and Access. There's also a chapter on SQL Server, as well as one dedicated to integrating with other Microsoft Office applications. In no time, you'll discover how to: Utilize the built in features of Access and Excel to access data Use VBA within Access or Excel to access data Build connection strings using ADO and DAO Automate Excel reports including formatting, functions, and page setup Write complex functions and queries with VBA Write simple and advanced queries with the Access GUI Produce pivot tables and charts with your data With Integrating Excel and Access, you can crunch and visualize data like never before. It's the ideal guide for anyone who uses Microsoft Office to handle data.
The ultimate handbook for Excel analysts who need reporting solutions using Access Excel and Access are intended to work together. This book offers a comprehensive review of the extensive analytical and reporting functionality that Access provides and how it enhances Excel reporting functions. Sales managers, operations analysts, administrative assistants, office managers, and many others who rely heavily on data can benefit from learning to integrate Excel and Access, and this book shows you how. Coverage includes: Data Analysis in Access & the Basics of Access Beyond Select Queries Transforming Your Data with Access Working with Calculations and Dates Performing Conditional Analysis Adding Dimension with Subqueries and Domain Aggregate Functions Running Descriptive Statistics in Access Scheduling and Running Batch Analysis Leveraging VBA to Enhance Data Analysis Reports, Dashboards, and Visualization in Access Presenting Data with Access Reports Using Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts in Access Enhancing Queries and Reports with Visualizations Advanced Excel and Access Integration Techniques Getting Access Data into Excel Using VBA to Move Data between Excel and Access Exploring Excel and Access Automation Integrating Excel and Access with XML Integrating Excel and Other Office Applications Access VBA Fundamentals Understanding and Using SQL and more! The Excel Analyst's Guide to Access helps you get more from both applications. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Apply Access and Excel effectively and efficiently to solve real-world business problems in this sixth edition of Problem-Solving Cases in Microsoft Access and Excel. With six individual tutorials that build a practical knowledge of Microsoft Office 2007 Access and Excel capabilities, this book sets the groundwork for applying these spreadsheet and database skills to actual scenarios. These scenarios take the form of 12 all new case studies, which introduce problems that are likely to face today's business professionals and allow readers to apply the information gleaned from the tutorials to solve them. With updates that include an all new sixth tutorial that covers data analysis techniques, a second integration case, and a 60-day trial of Microsoft Office 2007 software, this book affords readers the most up-to-date, practical education in the most commonly used software programs. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
PROBLEM-SOLVING CASES IN MICROSOFT(r) ACCESS(r) AND EXCEL(r), 11E, International Edition helps you apply the Access(r) database management system and Excel(r) spreadsheet to effectively analyze and solve real-world, business problems. Six individual tutorials build a practical knowledge of each software application's capabilities, while twelve all-new case studies present scenarios and problems common in business. Further, a skill-building integration feature requires readers to use Access(r) and Excel(r) together on cases, making this the most up-to-date, practical guide for these widely used software programs.
The material in this book covers everything needed to become proficient in Access. In writing this guide, we have been very careful to make this tutorial a generic one, not based on any particular version of the application. The information contained in this book covers the essence of Microsoft Access. That is, the topics taught are valid for all versions of the application. We believe that it is in the interest of our readers to learn Access and the topics that make up the fundamentals of the application as a database software. Version-specific features can always be learnt while using that particular version of the application. After reading this guide, the reader can expect to become proficient in Access and to be in a position to create basic to advanced databases that can be used for all kinds of purposes, from inventory management to sales tracking and employee productivity.
PROBLEM-SOLVING CASES IN MICROSOFT ACCESS AND EXCEL , 9e, International Edition helps students apply the Access database management system and Excel spreadsheet to effectively analyze and solve real-world, business problems. Six individual tutorials in the text build a practical knowledge of each software application's capabilities, while twelve all-new case studies present scenarios and problems common in business. Further, a skill-building integration feature requires students to use Access and Excel together on cases, making this the most up-to-date, practical guide for these widely used software programs.Instructor support materials can be found in the Instructor Downloads section of www.cengage.com/internaitonal. Designed to facilitate classroom instruction, these resources include six new Hall of Fame cases, along with new solution files, syllabus, Student Data Files, and a new Instructor's Manual.
This book takes a detailed look at how you can integrate applications in the Microsoft Office 97 product suite with data from your AS/400. Tasks that used to be nearly impossible are now made easy, if you learn the integration secrets in this book--secrets such as how to use your AS/400's output with your PC data formatting tools; secrets such as how to easily make professional-looking reports with AS/400 data. You'll also learn the secret of using visual query tools to create sophisticated information output; how to analyze and summarize the detailed and often cumbersome reports from your AS/400; and how to combine the presentation capabilities of Microsoft Office with the database capabilities of the AS/400 to provide your company with the best of both worlds. The first sections of the book introduce the essential knowledge you need to use Client Access as you integrate AS/400 data with the Microsoft Office applications. Author Brian Singleton explains how to install and configure Client Access, how to provide a seamless method of AS/400 integration with Microsoft Office using ODBC, the network drive functionality of Client Access, and the Client Access Data Transfer function. He also describes TCP/IP's FTP file transfer function and how to use it to bring data from the AS/400 to your PC. The remaining sections cover the veritable Swiss Army knife functions of Microsoft Office. For each of the office applications, there's a specific chapter devoted to showing how each function can be used with the AS/400--from using Word to create mailing labels, form letters, and envelopes to downloading data into spreadsheets, producing sophisticated queries and data retrievals, and creatingsophisticated reports, using Outlook as your AS/400. If you have PCs attached to your AS/400, this handbook has the essential information that will show you how to harness the power of Microsoft Office and exploit the AS/400 database. Key concepts covered in this book include the following: The different omponents of Client Access including ODBC, data transfer, network drives, operation navigator, and terminal emulation, how to install and configure Client Access for Microsoft Office integration, security issues with ODBC, how to configure+I6 a Client Access ODBC DSN Under Windows 95/NT, how to install and use MSQUERY, how the Query Wizard works and how it can make creating a Query easier, how to sort, filter, join, summarize and total using MSQUERY, how to merge AS/400 data to create labels, letters, and envelopes, how to create lists, reports, and graphs using Microsoft Excel and AS/400 data, yhe advantage of using Client Access Excel add-in, why Microsoft Access is one of the most powerful database products available on the PC, how to rename a linked table within the Access database without affecting the table on the AS/400, step-by-step instructions for importing data through Access, how to sort, filter, join, summarize and total using Access, techniques to help speed up your database operations with Access, seven steps needed to set up Outlook as an email client on an AS/400 server, how to set up Network Neighborhood to access your AS/400 and make sure your AS/400 files are secure, techniques to use data transfer to transfer data between PCs and the AS/400, how to automate the process, how to unlock the secrets of CCSIDs so that the AS/400 data is properly decoded, the advantagesand disadvantages of using FTP with TCP/IP rather CA/400 download, and the 11 FTP commands and how they are used.
