How do you use the relationships box? -----Original Message----- From: DaShiell, Jude T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 28 January 1999 23:08 Subject: RE: Intro to MS Access >Most of msaccess is possible to get through provided you remember when you >start answering questions to answer all questions. That means until the >finish button is the only button left to press answer all other questions. >That should keep you off the streeets and out of trouble for the next 30 >seconds. :-) What does need sighted people to do is customizing forms, but >that's because Microsoft didn't put enough menus in that section of the >program. Things should improve on that score though. I took a three-day >training course in msaccess so got to deal with much of the program with the >exception of accessbasic (that's really inaccessible), macros, and code. >Here's a pleasant surprise. Excel 97 calls pivot tables what the rest of >the world calls crosstabs. I took a three-day training course in excel97 >too. I found out excel's pivot table wizard is inaccessible for jfw users >at any rate. However the crosstab wizard in saccess was a breeze and >creates the same tables. Usually if you get asked to analyze something >management wants crosstabs, so just remember to use msaccess to do those and >you'll have expanded capability. Since msacces crosstabs can be imported >back into excel 97, you don't have to tell anyone how you managed to produce >those tables unless all you have is excel and can't get msaccess put in. >The other things about msaccess are list boxes are everywhere and it doesn't >hurt to examine them and make selections either. Second, many things in >msaccess run around under minimized windows. alt dash x should fix those >when they materialize though. >- >Visit the jfw ml web page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~nallan/jfw - Visit the jfw ml web page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~nallan/jfw
