Hello.... frustrated newbie

[narrellj]

hello all... im an engineering graduate from the US. I only worked as an engineer for 2 years before moving to ops. i moved to dubai and operate my companies rental business. unfortunately i was told excel is no longer going to work and i needed to set up an access database. i never even heard of access until a few weeks ago. i am currently in a major cram session and get stumped often. really looking forward to support. thanks in advance to all.

 

[Jon]

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[Rene vK]

Hi, welcome to this group! An advice from an older person: buy two good books, one handling databases and one on using Access vba. Furthermore there are some good online (read YouTube) video series on learning MS Access. they reach from creating a table all through create difficult stuff like programming. Extra advice pick up pencil and paper to create a sketch of what you want to happen with our database. Structure and results like reports.

Good luck, there are allways people online that will help you when your stuck.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

@narrellj - First and most important, Welcome.

Second, whoever told you that Excel is "no longer going to work" was certainly not talking about anything Microsoft is going to do. Did that person tell you WHY they thought Excel would not work? This IS an Access forum, but if we think Access is wrong for the specific job we won't hesitate to tell you. Therefore, it is important to us to know WHY that option would not be available IF in fact there is some corporate policy or some corporate decision to exclude Excel solutions.

 

[theDBguy]

Hi. Welcome to AWF!

 

[jdraw]

Welcome to the forum, narrellj. Doc has asked a very relevant question and many readers will be interested in your response. There are many articles in different formats in the Database Planing and Design link in my signature.