Copyright 2002, Ken Abernethy and Tom Allen
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Microsoft Access is the most popular srelational database software available for desktop computers. It is a component of the very popular Microsoft Office application suite and is fully integrated to effectively interact with any of the other Microsoft Office modules (MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Excel). These lessons are written for the Access 2000 version on the Windows 2000 platform, but you should have little difficulty translating them to another version.
Each of the lessons in this tutorial is designed to introduce some specific Access capabilities. Generally, the lessons are intended to be used in sequence, and the product produced in one lesson may be used in a subsequent lesson -- these dependencies are always referred to directly in the lessons themselves.