When will I have access to the lectures and assignments?

To access the course materials, assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience when you enroll in a course. You can try a Free Trial instead, or apply for Financial Aid. The course may offer 'Full Course, No Certificate' instead. This option lets you see all course materials, submit required assessments, and get a final grade. This also means that you will not be able to purchase a Certificate experience.

What will I get if I subscribe to this Specialization?

When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile.

Is financial aid available?

Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.

Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 3

Ends today! Save on skills that make you shine with 40% off 3 months of Coursera Plus. Save now

Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 3

This course is part of Microsoft Access 365 Essentials Specialization

Instructor: Bill Rosenthal

Included with

Learn more

8 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

1 week to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

8 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

1 week to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

Skills you'll gain

Tools you'll learn

Details to know

Shareable certificate

Add to your LinkedIn profile

See how employees at top companies are mastering in-demand skills

Learn more about Coursera for Business

logos of Petrobras, TATA, Danone, Capgemini, P&G and L'Oreal

Build your subject-matter expertise

This course is part of the Microsoft Access 365 Essentials Specialization

When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Specialization.

Learn new concepts from industry experts
Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 8 modules in this course

You've covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® Access®, and now you're ready to learn advanced Access features such as database management, advanced form design, packaging a database, encrypting a database, preparing a database for multiple-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separates database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers.

This course is the third part of a three-course Specialization that covers the skills needed to perform basic database design and development in Access. This course may be a useful component in your preparation for the Microsoft Access Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019): Exam MO-500 certification exam. Students taking this course are database administrators or prospective database administrators who have experience working with Access for Microsoft 365 and need to learn advanced skills. In this course, you will: share data across applications; use action, unmatched, and duplicate queries to manage data; create complex reports and forms; use macros to improve user interface design; use VBA to extend database capabilities; perform database management tasks such as backup, compacting, repairing, performance analysis, checking object dependencies, and documenting; and implement security strategies and distribute a database to multiple users. This course requires that you have Microsoft Access installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.

Module details

To support efficient business operations and good decision making, it's important to avoid creating information islands, a situation in which key business data is only available to certain people using certain systems. To help you make sure you can put the right data in the right locations, Microsoft® Access® provides numerous options you can use to import data from other systems into Access, export data from Access out to other systems, and to establish live connections between Access and external data sources.

What's included

7 plugins

You have used queries to select data from one or more sources, filter that data, combine it with other data, summarize it, and perform a variety of other tasks. Although these capabilities make queries useful for viewing, analyzing, and reporting, they also provide a useful basis for automating data management tasks and making mass updates to the database. You can use the querying features available in Microsoft® Access® to help you better manage your data.

What's included

5 plugins

Relational databases can contain numerous tables representing many concepts, and the data stored within those tables may be related in complex ways. The database developer may sometimes find it challenging to clearly present such complex data to users through reports and forms. Fortunately, Microsoft® Access® provides numerous features that can help you present complex information in ways that make sense to users—such as subreports, subforms, navigation forms, and popup forms.

What's included

6 plugins

Through Microsoft® Access® database features such as tables, forms, queries, SQL, properties, lookup lists, relationships, and so forth, there are many ways to make it easier for users to enter and use data, ensure the data users enter is valid, and ensure referential integrity. Macros provide an additional layer of capability to support these goals.

What's included

7 plugins

You have seen how you can use macros in Microsoft® Access® to perform repetitive tasks or actions that are difficult for users to perform. VBA provides additional tools that you can use to extend the capabilities of your database, with a somewhat different approach to programming.

What's included

5 plugins

Creating tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros in Microsoft® Access® is only part of the job of managing a database or multiple databases. As a database designer and administrator, you must perform many non-creative, non-design tasks, such as backing up databases, repairing and consolidating your databases, maintaining database performance, and documenting database information. As the database administrator, you have the responsibility of guaranteeing database integrity through good design, clean data, and a healthy database.

What's included

6 plugins

Microsoft® Access® provides database administrators with tools to move from a single-user database to a multiple-user networked database application. Microsoft has leveraged Access to be able to handle a lot of heavy database processing before a solution like Microsoft's SQL Server® is required. And, if you need to move up to SQL Server, Access enables you to do so seamlessly. This lesson prepares you for multiple-user access and splitting your databases into front-end and back-end components. You're also given tools to implement security for your databases, including trusted locations, passwords, conversion to ACCDE format, and digital signatures.