Training Course

VBA Essentials using Access

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Course Duration: 3 Days

Course Overview

This course is aimed at those who would like to develop their skills and knowledge of VBA programming in Access application development.

Course Objectives

    • Explain the difference between sub and function procedures in VBA code
    • List 3 common events and in where they might use them in application design
    • Write professional VBA code segments with error checking to carry out tasks as defined by your tutor
    • Use the AccessObject object to create an intelligent report selection form
    • Build a browse form for quick navigation to a specific record
    • Create a flexible report such that people may choose its content at run-time
    • Describe how to debug VBA code

Prerequisites

    • Delegates should understand table, query, form, report and macro design and function, as well as data normalisation and table relationships.
    • Delegates should be currently working with an Access database application that they have built themselves.
    • Delegates should have attended Access Level 2 and/or Level 3 courses or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Content

  • Designing Applications

    What is an access application?
    The development process
    Macros or VBA?

  • Introduction to Event Driven Programming

    The VBA IDE
    Converting macros to VBA
    Completing the company contacts Form

  • Creating Code

    Procedures
    Modules
    Subroutines and functions
    Procedure declaration
    Built-in functions
    Variables
    Constants and intrinsic constants
    Variable scope and lifetime
    Naming conventions

  • Controlling the Program

    Programming structures
    Repetition
    Arrays

  • Using Access Objects

    Object-oriented programming
    Object models
    Access objects
    The AccessObject object
    Forms and reports
    Referring to objects
    Special objects
    The object browser

  • Using DAO

    Working with recordsets
    The DAO hierarchy
    DAO vs ADO

  • Reports

    Filters
    Format
    Error
    Close
    Deactivate
    Activate
    Open
    Events

  • Advanced Programming Techniques

    Custom DAO properties
    Dynamic-link libraries (DLLs)
    Arguments
    Arrays

  • Error Handling and Debugging

    Debugging your debugging code
    Error handling
    Debugging
    Types of errors
    Testing
    Compiling
    Planning for errors

  • Using Classes

    Forms as class modules
    Class modules and custom objects

  • Libraries and Add-Ins

    Add-ins
    Class libraries
    Library databases

  • Multi-User

    Compiling
    Security
    Record locking in access
    Multi-developer issues

  • The Internet (Optional as time permits)

    Publishing data to the internet
    The HyperLink data type
    The internet

  • Optimising Your Application

    Finishing touches
    Network considerations
    Increasing apparent speed
    Increasing execution speed
    Reducing memory overhead
    Efficiency

Included with this course

    • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
    • Comprehensive course materials and exercises
    • Telephone and Email Support

 

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Course Reviews
Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable Learning about the way the connections work with databases with ado etc..

M. William Smith, VBA Essentials using Access

All aspects of the course were valuable

J.C. William Smith, VBA Essentials using Access

All aspects greatly improved my knowledge.

P.T. Bruker Jv Uk Ltd., Excel Level 3

Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable All of the course. A lot of these are tips that I will use every now and then, and some i.e. quick paths are ones I will begin using regularly.

C. Gachet, Managing your Inbox using Microsoft Outlook

Following this training what are you going to do differently Design frames and images better. Using templates and master pages more efficiently.

M.L. Nihr Clinical Research Network, Adobe InDesign Level 1

Programming bespoke functions, familiarity of code, variety of available techniques.

P.L. Westrock, VBA Essentials using Excel

Really enjoyed the breakdown of seeing our own accounts, double clicks etc.

M.O. Durham County Council, Google Ads

Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable Lookups and Pivot tables but I feel as though I have learned lots from each unit we covered.

L.W. County Durham Community Foundation, Excel Level 3

 

 

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