Good afternoon,
My name is Stephen Watkins, and obviously I'm here for Access help, but let me introduce myself first.
I was first introduced to Access back in college a bit more than a decade ago. Learned the basics of Access as a business tool in one class and separately (not directly related to Access) learned some SQL in another class. (I was a business major and comp sci minor.)
I didn't use Access again for many years, not substantively. I fiddled with it occassionally at home, but never at work, and what I did at home was very small potatoes. My real expertise was in Excel, and I'd long been used to being the go-to guy at work for Excel questions.
In the last three years, however, Access has become a much bigger part of my day job, and I've learned a lot about, though I'm still probably mostly a neophyte.
I've built some small databases, done some restructuring and some normalization of an existing database, done a bit of form design, query design, and report design. I'm even not terribly shy about venturing into VBA to do what I want to do. (It helps that I had a VB+ class in my comp sci minor lo these many years ago, though the two are different and it had been a long time since.)
I've come to prefer Access over Excel for certain types of tasks and applications, and I actively think about whether Access or Excel would be better suited to a task before I start building something (and also factor in which would be easier sometimes, which is still usually Excel for me - but I've learned that doesn't make it a good idea sometimes).
Anyway, I've started hitting a few walls, and my ability to find answers simply by relying on Google and other people hitting comparably similar walls before me has started to run out. So, here I am.
My name is Stephen Watkins, and obviously I'm here for Access help, but let me introduce myself first.
I was first introduced to Access back in college a bit more than a decade ago. Learned the basics of Access as a business tool in one class and separately (not directly related to Access) learned some SQL in another class. (I was a business major and comp sci minor.)
I didn't use Access again for many years, not substantively. I fiddled with it occassionally at home, but never at work, and what I did at home was very small potatoes. My real expertise was in Excel, and I'd long been used to being the go-to guy at work for Excel questions.
In the last three years, however, Access has become a much bigger part of my day job, and I've learned a lot about, though I'm still probably mostly a neophyte.
I've built some small databases, done some restructuring and some normalization of an existing database, done a bit of form design, query design, and report design. I'm even not terribly shy about venturing into VBA to do what I want to do. (It helps that I had a VB+ class in my comp sci minor lo these many years ago, though the two are different and it had been a long time since.)
I've come to prefer Access over Excel for certain types of tasks and applications, and I actively think about whether Access or Excel would be better suited to a task before I start building something (and also factor in which would be easier sometimes, which is still usually Excel for me - but I've learned that doesn't make it a good idea sometimes).
Anyway, I've started hitting a few walls, and my ability to find answers simply by relying on Google and other people hitting comparably similar walls before me has started to run out. So, here I am.
