Best place to start Access self-education

[mholst]

Can anybody recommend a source to learn how to build/construct/make an Access database preferably targeted to the common person using plain English? In other words, I need to be taught as if I were a 5 year old. LOL

[Dal Jeanis]

I posted a bunch of good resources on this thread https://www.accessforums.net/access/...rms-36092.html

Start with Crystal Long's free Access 2003 tutorial book, link in post 5 of that thread, then go to functionX for their tutorial, link in post 7 of that thread. After that, you should be ready to poke around on the MVP sites and come up with cool stuff to tell US about.

[mholst]

Thanks Dal! I was getting overwhelmed by all the options and needed a guide.

[Dal Jeanis]

It's a big wide tangly "forest" of information out there, but Crystal Long has provided a pleasant "glade" near the entrance to the forest.

When you start designing a database, check out Roger Carlson's tutorials on Database design and application design. They give you a grounding in "database theory", without any ten-dollar words. Just common sense - list all the THINGS that you're going to keep track of - the NOUNS. Now list all the qualities they have - the Adjectives or numbers or possessions.... and so on. Great examples, more important to understand the technique than necessarily ot do it perfect.

[mholst]

There are pros and cons of the internet being like the wild west! Thanks for directions to the "glade".