Microsoft Access 2013: Complete

Book Preface

The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the finest textbooks in computer education. We are proud that since Mircosoft Office 4.3, our series of Microsoft Office textbooks have been the most widely used books in education. With each new edition of our Office books, we make significant improvements based on the software and comments made by instructors and students. For this Microsoft Access 2013 text, the Shelly Cashman Series development team carefully reviewed our pedagogy and analyzed its effectiveness in teaching today’s Office student. Students today read less, but need to retain more. They need not only to be able to perform skills, but to retain those skills and know how to apply them to different settings. Today’s students need to be continually engaged and challenged to retain what they’re learning.

With this Microsoft Access 2013 text, we continue our commitment to focusing on the users and how they learn best.

Microsoft Access 2013: Complete is intended for a six- to nine-week period in a course that teaches Access 2013 in conjunction with another application or computer concepts. No experience with a computer is assumed, and no mathematics beyond the high school freshman level is required. The objectives of this book are:

• To offer an in-depth presentation of Microsoft Access 2013
• To expose students to practical examples of the computer as a useful tool
• To acquaint students with the proper procedures to create databases suitable for coursework, professional purposes, and personal use

• To help students discover the underlying functionality of Access 2013 so they can become more productive
• To develop an exercise-oriented approach that allows learning by doing