Microsoft® Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition

Key Points

• Microsoft Office Access 2003 provides a variety of tools you can use to organize the display of information in a database and to locate specific items of information, making it easy to search through and find information in your database, even as it grows in size and complexity.

• You can sort through a table in either ascending or descending order, based on the values in any field (or combination of fields). In Access, numbers can be treated as text or numerals.

• You can filter a table so that information containing some combination of characters is displayed (or excluded from the display). You can apply simple filters while viewing information in a table or a form. These filters are applied to the contents of a selected field, but you ...