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Forms & Reports: Exercise Access 4-4

You need to use what you just learned, and maybe learn a little more. Complete all parts of the following exercises. Don't forget to backup your Class disk when you have completed the exercises or whenever you stop for the day and saved a document along the way.

This exercise does not use any resource files.
Full floppy disk How to handle a full disk

Exercise Database 4-4: On Your Own


What you will do: Create a database of your own

You will create a database of your own which includes numbers for some kind of calculation. These might be prices or scores or whatever is useful to you.

Suggestions for type of database:

  • club members with addresses, phone numbers, dues paid or not, club office held...
  • records of a science fair experiment with measurements
  • sales of several products by type or date or region or salesman...
  • events scheduled at a theater or show ring with name of event, responsible person or organization, dates, times, fee, paid or not, description of event
  • customers and their orders (requires 3 main tables)
  • courses taken with data on semester or dates, instructor, name of course, school, details of course content, final grade, cost, average grades...
  1. Create a new, blank database. Save it with the name ex4-Lastname-Firstname.accdb to your Class disk in the folder databases project4. (Use your own first and last names, of course!)
  2. Create at least 3 related tables, using the method of your choice.
  3. Create at least 1 query that uses fields from at least 2 tables.
  4. Create at least 1 form to enter data into one of your tables.
  5. Include a subform to show the related records from another table.
  6. Add at least 10 records to your primary table and at least 4 related records for some of the records in the primary table.
  7. Create a printable form and Icon: Printer print one of the records.
  8. Create a report that summarizes the data without showing anything in the Detail section.
  9. Create a report that uses a subreport, either with each record or providing a summary in the report header or footer.
  10. Create one of the special forms and reports: switchboard, custom dialog, labels report, chart report, report with multiple columns
  11. Icon: Printer Print all of your reports.
  12. Icon: Printer Print the Relationships.