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MICROSOFT ACCESS 2013
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2. Module 7: Automating Access Databases
Create Macros
There’s no Macro Recorder, as in Word or Excel
Instead, you build a “Script” from available Actions
Actions often have “Action Arguments” that further refine the Action
We’ll see several different ways to trigger our macros
By running it from the Editor window
By double-clicking the macro’s name in the (left side) Navigation Pane
By clicking a Command-Button
By opening or closing a form
By typing some magic words into a field
By opening this database-file (this macro must be named “AutoExec”)

3. Module 8: DB Maintenance and Deployment
Startup Options
Introduction to VBA concepts and terminology
Compact and repair databases
Using hyperlinks in an Access database
Record locking
Create switchboard-forms (2 ways)
By Command-buttons
By the “Switchboard Manager”

4. Macro Actions we are using
Result
MessageBox
Displays information to our user and waits for them to click an [OK]-button
OpenForm
You can control what the user can do with the records in this form
MaximizeWindow
Maximizes all windows except MsgBoxes
RestoreWindow
Un-maximizes all windows
Close
Closes the current object, but you could use it to close other open objects as well
MoveSizeWindow
Controls placement of the upper-left corner of a window as well as the height and width of the window
SetValue
Enter pre-defined data in a pre-defined spot

5. Practice frmCustomerData is made from tblCustomer
tblCustomer has a foreign key named strSalesperson
tblPersonal is a list of our employees
It has a primary key named EmployeeID
frmCustomerData and frmPersonal are made from those 2 tables
Create a button on frmCustomerData that opens frmPersonal, connected by strSalesperson <-> strEmployeeID

6. Visual Basic Programming
You usually declare “variables” as memory-locations where you store information
Variables that store text are called “String”-variables
Search the web for “visual basic variable types”
Your program usually has “branches” controlled by “if-then-else” or “Select Case” logical structures

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