| Introduction.
You Don't Need to Be a Nerd to Use This Book.
Sneaking a Peek at What's to Come.
Part I: Which Came First: The Data or the Base?
Part II: Truly Tempting Tables.
Part III: Finding the Ultimate Answer to Everything (Well, Not Everything).
Part IV: Turning Your Table into a Book.
Part V: Wizards, Forms, and Other Mystical Stuff.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
What the Funny Text Means.
Finding Points of Interest.
Setting Sail on the Voyage.
Part I: Which Came First: The Data or the Base?
Chapter 1: The 37-Minute Overview.
In the Beginning, There Was Access 2002 (But It Wasn't Running).
Chapter 2: Finding Your Way around like a Native.
Making Sense of the Sights.
Chapter 3: Calling the Online Saint Bernard and Other Forms of Help.
Pressing F1 for Assistance.
Part II: Truly Tempting Tables.
Chapter 4: Designing and Building a Home for Your Data.
Database Terms to Know and Tolerate.
Chapter 5: Relationships, Keys, and Indexes (And Why You Really Do Care).
The Joy (And Necessity) of a Primary Key.
Chapter 6: New Data, Old Data, and Data in Need of Repair.
Dragging Your Table into the Digital Workshop.
Chapter 7: Making Your Table Think with Formats, Masks, and Validations.
Finding the Place to Make a Change.
Chapter 8: Making Your Datasheets Dance.
Wandering Here, There, and Everywhere.
Chapter 9: Table Remodeling Tips for the Do-It-Yourselfer.
This Chapter Can Be Hazardous to Your Table's Design.
Part III: Finding the Ultimate Answer to Everything (Well, Not Everything).
Chapter 10: Quick Searches: Find, Filter, and Sort.
Finding Stuff in Your Tables.
Chapter 11: Pose a Simple Query, Get 10,000 Answers.
Database Interrogation for Fun and Profit.
Chapter 12: Searching a Slew of Tables.
Some General Thoughts about Multiple-Table Queries.
Chapter 13: The Ands and Ors of Dr. Boole.
Comparing AND to OR.
Chapter 14: Teaching Queries to Think and Count.
Totaling Everything in Sight.
Chapter 15: Calculating Your Way to Fame and Fortune.
A Simple Calculation.
Chapter 16: Automated Editing for Big Changes.
First, This Word from Our Paranoid Sponsor.
Part IV: Turning Your Table into a Book.
Chapter 17: AutoReport: Like the Model-T, It's Clunky but It Runs.
AutoReport Basics for High-Speed Information.
Chapter 18: Wizardly Help with Labels, Charts, and Multilevel Reports.
Creating Labels.
Chapter 19: It's Amazing What a Little Formatting Can Do.
Taking Your Report to the Design View Tune-Up Shop.
Chapter 20: Headers and Footers for Groups, Pages, and Even (Egad) Whole Reports.
Everything in Its Place.
Part V: Wizards, Forms, and Other Mystical Stuff
Chapter 21: Spinning Your Data into (And onto) the Web.
Access 2002 and the Internet: A Match Made in Redmond.
Chapter 22: Making Forms That Look Cool and Work Great.
Tax Forms and Data Forms Are Very Different Animals.
Chapter 23: If Love Is Universal, Why Can't I Export to It?
Importing Only the Best Information for Your Databases.
Chapter 24: The Analyzer: Your Data's Dr. Freud, Dr. Watson, and Dr. Jekyll.
It Slices, It Dices, It Builds Relational Databases!
Chapter 25: Talking To Your Computer.
What Is Speech Recognition (And What Can I Do with It)?
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 26: Ten Timesaving Keyboard Shortcuts.
Chapter 27: Ten Common Crises and How to Survive Them.
Index.
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