Microsoft Access Tutorial B - Cengage Learning

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Your goal is to get the Street Address and Zip fields into the last name header (not intothe page header!), so they will then print on the same line. The first step is to click the StreetAddress object in the Street Address Header, as shown in Figure B-78.Figure B-78Selecting Street Address object in the Street Address headerHold down the button with the little hand icon, and drag the object up into the Last NameHeader, as shown in Figure B-79.Figure B-79Moving the Street Address object to the Last Name headerDo the same thing with the Zip object, as shown in Figure B-80.Figure B-80Moving the Zip object to the Last Name headerTo get rid of the header space allocated to the objects, tighten up the “dotted” areabetween each header. Put the cursor on the top of the header panel. The arrow changes tosomething that looks like a crossbar. Click and drag it up to close the distance. After bothheaders are moved up, your screen should look like that shown in Figure B-81.Figure B-81Adjusting header spaceYour report should now resemble the portion of the one shown in Figure B-82.Figure B-82Wage Rates for Employees report48 Tutorial B
IMPORTING DATAText or spreadsheet data is easily imported into Access. In business, importing data happensfrequently due to disparate systems. Assume that your healthcare coverage data is onthe Human Resources Manager’s computer in an Excel spreadsheet. Open the softwareapplication Microsoft Excel. Create that spreadsheet in Excel now, using the data shown inFigure B-83.Tutorial BFigure B-83Excel dataSave the file, then close it. Now you can easily import that spreadsheet data into a newtable in Access. With your Employee database open and Tables object selected, click Newand click Import Table, as shown in Figure B-84. Click OK.Figure B-84Importing data into a new tableMicrosoft Access Tutorial 49
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