Microsoft® Office Access™ 2007 Plain & Simple

A Few Assumptions

I had to make a few educated guesses about the audience when I started writing this book. Perhaps you just use Access for personal reasons—keeping track of your books, music, contacts, and so on. Perhaps you use Access at work to maintain records of your inventory, customers, and the orders they place. Or maybe you run a small home-based business. Taking all these possibilities into account, I assumed that you’d need to know how to create, modify, and work with all of the basic Access database objects; to administer the database; and to share the data on the Internet or over your company’s internal network.

Another assumption I made is that you have an inherent curiosity about what you can do with Access 2007. Rather than show ...