In this chapter, we provide detailed steps so that you can perform activities and at the same time familiarize yourself with how to productively work with the Access desktop database interface. We will leave a discussion of Web App databases until Chapter 40. When developing a Web App, you use a design interface on your computer that is similar to the familiar desktop database interface.
The second type of database is called a Web App this is a new feature in Access and means that the database is stored in Office 365, and the user interface is displayed in a browser window. The first is a desktop database this is a database where the components are held in one or more files on your computer or network. If you are already familiar with Access 2010, then you will find that the desktop database has improved productivity, but the major revision in the product has been the introduction of the Web App.Īccess 2013 enables you to create two distinct but related types of databases. The database window of Access 2003 has been replaced with a searchable Navigation pane on the left side of the interface that allows you to filter objects of one or more types. Depending on what you are doing, the ribbon will display additional tool tabs to assist you in a particular task. Introduced in Office 2007, the ribbon provides a tabbed interface for working in the product. If you are moving from Microsoft Office 2003 to Office Professional 2013, then you will notice a big difference in the user interface. The product allows you to present the data through both professional-looking forms and reports. In addition to quickly locating information, the database ensures consistency in the information by linking together the data in different tables. Microsoft Access allows you to structure and store your information in a set of database tables and can efficiently manage and share large amounts of data. Compacting, repairing, and encrypting a database.
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