Meetings: 2010

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September 18th WACUG / OPCUG Meeting Meeting at OLLI - TA1 -3rd Saturday !! Building a Simple Database An Introduction to Access 2007 Presentation by Walter Fraser Access2007 is a Relational Database Management System, i.e., a RDBMS. Probably the most widely used RDMBS program, Access was still last on Microsoft Office Professional 2007 box list of programs. Access was listed after Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Publisher. Many Access users may believe that it was listed last because it had the hardest task. Access was developed to support designing, building and managing meaningful, flexible, editable databases. This is a more difficult task than that faced by any of the other programs on the list. But Aristotle is said to have written: We learn how to do a thing by doing that which we wish do when we have learned it, we become builders by building. This brief review of Access2007 will focus on the initial steps required to design and implement a sensible, flexible and robust name and address listing in Access2007. The review is offered in hopes that it will provide a good starting place for beginners as well as opportunity for amplification by those better informed than the presenter. At the very least, it is to be hoped that even users, sensible enough to let others do the work required to develop the databases for them, will become better informed users of the databases they do use. Document Styles September's 'Learn 30' topic will be a discussion of Document Styles ..